Smallweed Quotes

#1. Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.

Charles Dickens

#2. Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Earl Nightingale

#3. She received his note not two minutes later. She opened it, her heart pounding. But there were only two words on the paper. Marry me.

Courtney Milan

#4. Man cannot exist without work, without legal, natural property. Depart from these conditions, and he becomes perverted and changed into a wild beast.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. Same with gorillas. Whoops, they say, sky gone all red, stars crashing to ground, what they putting in the bananas these days?

Terry Pratchett

#6. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps.

Mitch Albom

#7. I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.

Wole Soyinka

#8. No, you don't need to help me. But if you don't, there's nothing stopping me from calling you up again and again, now that I know you can't kill me. Think of it as me leaning against your Heavenly doorbell ... forever.

Cassandra Clare

#9. Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

William S. Burroughs

#10. To go nowhere, follow the crowd.

John C. Maxwell

#11. Have you seen the stars, Enaiat?" "What have the stars got to do with anything?" "Count them, Enaiat." "That's impossible. There are too many of them." "Then start now, said Mother. Otherwise you'll never finish." (p.10/11)

Fabio Geda

#12. The possibilities far outweigh the disappointments. Keep learning, keep believing and keep seeking.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. It's not that I wrote those details, but photos can give you the confidence that you have a real feel for the landscape. Then you can invent with a solid kind of faith, and recreate a feel and flavor of the time, and, one hopes, a tonality, a sense of that time having been lived by those characters.

Chang-rae Lee

#14. We laugh & it pits the world against us.

Richard Siken

#15. For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really jealous of movie directors whose careers seem to grow and they'll be 70 years old and still doing these incredible jobs. I'm going to reverse that, I hope.

James Mercer