Jurant Stamp Quotes

#1. In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#2. We write ourselves certain parts and then keep playing them as if we have no choice. But a tardy person can become a punctual one, if she chooses. You don't have to keep being the thing you have become. It is never too late.

Rachel Joyce

#3. I'm just a poor boy from the cornfields of Richmond, Virginia. I'm proud because I loved baseball and played with the best.

Ray Dandridge

#4. Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.

Rowan Atkinson

#5. It could appear that I'm some kind of natural genius, but it's just a million small lessons I've picked up over the years.

Rivers Cuomo

#6. People change, you know. When you leave your country, you are like a plant taken out of soil. Some people turn hard, they can't flower again.

Abraham Verghese

#7. Why is it that I occur as a story to everyone except myself?

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. Look at the longing, the anguish of a sad fossil world / that cannot find the accent of its first sob.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#9. I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It is in this paradox that I try to visualize by concentrating on poses, attitudes, gestures, and gazes.

Rineke Dijkstra

#10. They were all down there trying to wire the shackle. Each one of them alone, clinging to the stem of a mushroom anchor with one breath inside. One breath. It didn't matter if you got the shackle wired or not. There was no up. When your breath was done, no up."

John Casey, Spartina

John Casey

#11. Trying to change someone only makes them cling to their existing behavior with brutish, primal force.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#12. In a couple of weeks I'd be starting a new school, and I knew Dee would be surrounded by friends -friends that Daemon probably approved of, which wasn't me, because he obviously thought I was a crack dealer.

Jennifer L. Armentrout