Excursions In St Quotes

#1. Then what exactly is it that you design?"
He gave a proud smile.
"Bitless compositions."
"Bitless? You mean, from bits, the units of information?"
"No, Mr. Tichy, the units of being bitten.

Stanislaw Lem

#2. If you toss a pebble into the ocean, it will sink forever without ever making a ripple. But if you throw that same pebble into a small pond, it will create waves that eventually wash ashore & touch all who walk there.

Debrah Morris

#3. Everything you need God already is.

Priscilla Shirer

#4. I am puffed clay, blown up and set down. That I fall like Adam is not surprising: I plunge, waft, arc, pour, and dive. The surprise is how good the wind feels on my face as I fall. And the other surprise is that I ever rise at all

Annie Dillard

#5. I can be bolder on the page, as a character. I can gnash my teeth, I can scream and yell, in a way that I'm perhaps too timid to do in real life.

Jenny Offill

#6. A soulmate is someone who you could spend a great deal of time with just sitting on a sofa and feel happy. You don't need fanfare. You don't need to go out to expensive restaurants.

Karen Salmansohn

#7. It was she whom I loved and whom I could not therefore see without that anxiety, without that desire for something more, which destroys in us, in the presence of the person we love, the sensation of loving.

Marcel Proust

#8. You need to calm down and remember that everyone grieves differently. Doesn't mean they don't care. You don't judge people in pain, and you damn sure don't lash out at them when they've lost what Syn has!

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn't do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.

William Eggleston

#10. The artist has the liberty to exaggerate, to create in his novel a world more beautiful, more simple, more consoling than ours.

Irving Stone

#11. I am kind and beautiful. I have a soul.It's better to be known for what I am not. Isn't that how the saying goes?

Rebecca Berto

#12. People live more happily than any that I have seen elsewhere. It is very cheerful to live among people whose faces are not soured by the east wind, or wrinkled by the worrying effort to "keep up appearances," which deceive nobody;

Isabella L. Bird

#13. Wait, wait, wait," he said, and everyone stopped to listen. "This is about those children I murdered, isn't it?" He laughed. "Listen," he said. "If you spare the axe, you spoil the child.

Joey Comeau

#14. Pastors spend a good bit of time helping people with their sin. Who helps them with their sin?

Johnny Hunt

#15. How many fucking times do I have to tell you that you're special?"
"A million? Possibly more."
Cooper grinned at my tone. "Fair enough.

Bijou Hunter