Starmack Group Quotes

#1. People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think.

C. JoyBell C.

#2. The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

Theodore Sturgeon

#3. You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.

William McDonough

#4. [T]he kingdom of God ... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will be subordinate and by which they will be dominated.

B. H. Roberts

#5. I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon.

Heber J. Grant

#6. Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

Pharrell Williams

#7. A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.

Philip K. Dick

#8. If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.

D. A. Carson

#9. Anxiety, says Kierkegaard, is the dizziness of freedom.

Neel Burton

#10. Scientists say that Texas and Antarctica were connected at one time. In fact, early Mexicans used to go through Texas to try to sneak into Antarctica.

Jay Leno

#11. Savour life's pleasures in abundance

Ginger Sullivan

#12. I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself. Feelings seemed completely unreliable, like faulty gibberish scraped from a Ouija board.

Emma Cline

#13. My prescription for better health is to let go of the six things that could be destroying it - anger, regret, blame, resentment, worry, and guilt.

Charles F. Glassman