Wiseacre Starless Quotes & Sayings

If you want me you're going to have to come and get me. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

We come to the page with too many expectations. Each poor little story is like a trembling donkey upon which we heap tons of weight. We don't just want a good book, we want a bestseller. If it isn't perfect, we hate it. If it isn't 100% right, it's 1000% wrong. Problem: we care too damn much. It's all or nothing with us and that's the kind of dichotomy that shanks our happiness right in the kidneys. So: care less. Ease off the stress stick. Have more fun with what you're doing. When your kids and dogs play in the mud, you can either freak out that they're too dirty, or you can laugh and jump in the mud, too. So, fuck it: jump in the damn mud already. — Chuck Wendig

Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridiculous. I think that's what life is like, that's what interests me. — Joss Whedon

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. — Ambrose Bierce

We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man. — Annie Besant

I stretched out my hands, holding the falling sun in one hand, and the climbing moon in the other, my silver and gold, my gift from life. My gift of life. My life is a hesitation in time. An opening in a cave. A gap for a word. — Jeanette Winterson

Alice jumped from flagstone to flagstone, her face caught in the rainlight glow, her hand grasping for a touch of gold. The towns excitement was contagious, and the air was so thick with promise Alice could almost bite into it. — Tahereh Mafi

A million years went by quick. — Carlton Fisk

Jesus works on Sundays, Hop. Want a direct line, time to haul your biker ass to church. — Kristen Ashley

A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality. — George Saunders

However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems. — Robert Huber

If for some reason we get separated, I want you to wait for me. I'll find you, I promise. - Gabriel Emerson — Sylvain Reynard

Let us render the tyrant no aid. — Frederick Douglass