Willmore Lumber Quotes & Sayings

Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition ... we lose something of the ability to think new thoughts. And equally, of course, whenever we rebel against the sterile rigidity of formal thought and exposition and let our ideas run wild, we likewise lose. As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of lose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most precious tool of science. — Gregory Bateson

Hey, man, I toss a stick for a living. Gotta spice up that deal, y'know. Gotta stand out. — Breaux Greer

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience. — Joyce Cary

Appreciate the liars. When people don't hide things, it means they don't care enough to be afraid of losing you. — Danielle Evans

The sciences need philosophy; philosophy, in turn, needs the sciences. On both sides, certain naive minds, too confident in their own forces and satisfied with ideas entirely too superficial, believed in the universal value of a single method. On both side a severe critique must lead each method back to its just limits, and teach them to ask aid of the other methods and manners of approach which, by their convergence, will permit the mind to embrace the diverse aspects of reality — Fulton J. Sheen

Ethan glances down at our linked hands as though confused as to why he's touching me, before he finally - finally - gets his shit together. — Lauren Layne

This time sleep came to take me - a deep sleep that all but pulled me by the ankles to the bottom of the sea. — Haruki Murakami

Bodies such as stars or black holes cannot just appear out of nothing. But a whole universe can. — Stephen Hawking

I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women. — David Bailey

As our dear Husband, in wooing his [church], received many a black stroke, so his bride, in wooing him, gets many blows, and in this wooing there are strokes upon both sides — Samuel Rutherford

A Chinese saying describes it well: "As far away as the horizon, and right in front of your face." You can run toward it forever, run faster and faster, and never get any closer. Only when you stop do you realize you are already there. That is exactly our collective situation right now. All of the solutions to the global crisis are sitting right in front of us, but they are invisible to our collective seeing, existing, as it were, in a different universe. When we are trapped in a story, we can only do the things that that story can recognize. Often we are aware of being trapped (the old story is ending) but don't have access to any alternative (we haven't yet inhabited a new story). — Charles Eisenstein

Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said — Cormac McCarthy

There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price. — Monica Lewinsky