Still Life With Woodpecker Quotes

#1. There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

Tom Robbins

#2. Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.

Tom Robbins

#3. It's hard to remember a time when I wasn't writing.

Kacey Musgraves

#4. He (Mario Vargas Llosa) looks grave, transported. And there, I think, is the personality that wrote the books: one in which a subversive comic sense and appetite for the ridiculous jostle with an intense, statesmanlike seriousness about the business of being alive.

Tim Martin

#5. Any physical contact with her was a bonus. She could give me a noogie and I'd consider it a win.

Beth Ehemann

#6. The road to heaven is paved with fulfilled desires, and to hell with frustrated ones.

Theodore Dalrymple

#7. Don't get it right, just get it written.

James Thurber

#8. What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's the underground involved in political resistance and the underground involved in preserving beauty and fun
which is to say, preserving the human spirit.

Tom Robbins

#9. As the woodpecker taps in a spiral quest
From the root to the top of the tree,
Then flies to another tree,
So have I bored into life to find what lay therein,
And now it is time to die,
And I will fly to another tree.

Sidney Lanier

#10. If you want to change the world, change it through the market

Paul Gilding

#11. To mourn is to feel a flower's slow death, hill bear. To bed a man is to recall the flower's bright glory.

Steven Erikson

#12. He's not real friendly," Sunshine explained as she set up her stand. "I think he has rabies or something.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#13. Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when wishing apparently no longer led to anything, and Leigh-Cheri eventually named it Prince Charming after that son-of-a-bitch who never comes though.

Tom Robbins

#14. The day should come when all of the forms of life ... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.

William O. Douglas

#15. Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Wayne Dyer

#16. When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.

Tom Robbins

#17. Humor is proof that everything is going to be all right with God nevertheless.

Charles M. Schulz

#18. Do you always get in this much trouble?" Pritkin asked from behind me.
"Mostly," I breathed.
"You know, I've noticed that about you," he told me.
And then he kissed me.

Karen Chance

#19. That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo.

Todd McFarlane