Rumphius Quotes

#1. You must do something to make the world more beautiful - Ms. Rumphius

Barbara Cooney

#2. 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

Barbara Cooney

#3. Only for you, children of doctrine and learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed in various places and gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom.

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

#4. Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

Jerry Seinfeld

#5. How did we get to this place where we had to be tough all the time and never said how much we loved each other?

Jennifer Echols

#6. For Metafiction, in its ascendant and most important phases, was really nothing more than a single-order expansion of its own great theoretical nemisis, Realism: if realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see.

David Foster Wallace

#7. He'd had no intentions of being at the World Memory Championship. Instead, he had devoted the last six months to memorizing the first 50,000 digits of the mathematical constant pi,

Joshua Foer

#8. It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that have no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses. This is one of them. Bad argument gets counterargument. Does not get bullet. Never. Never ever never for ever.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#9. The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

Edsger Dijkstra

#10. Gratitude feels so good because it is the state of mind closest to your natural state in which you were born to live.

Esther Hicks

#11. The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.

Giacomo Casanova

#12. Encourage the women in your life - your friends, sisters, mothers, daughters - to insist on dignity and respect, to have faith in themselves, to be proud. Expect boys and men to be respectful, kind, and responsible, and don't settle for less.

Lundy Bancroft

#13. Applicants for wisdom
do what I have done:
inquire within

Heraclitus

#14. I'm dating a very high-maintenance career.

Aimee Garcia

#15. To have someone get out of bed and bring you little fishes and sit with you as you eat them in the dark of night. To hum to you. This is love.

Kate DiCamillo

#16. There's always a choice. That's God's way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There's no set of leg-irons on you. But ... this is what God wants of you.

Stephen King