Stoney Creek Quotes

#1. I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates everything nonsurgically.

Sandra Bullock

#2. I have come to realize, after over thirty years of studying human creativity, that the great divide is not between those who are artists and those who are not, but between those who understand that they are creative and those who have become convinced that they are not.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#3. Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.

B. J. Chute

#4. Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

Elie Wiesel

#5. The truth is ugly, so we put our prophets in prison.

Charles Manson

#6. Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.

Andy Grove

#7. Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony 'encyclopedia' compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.

Al Kooper

#8. Grief is as much about regret for what you've never had as sadness for what you've lost.

David Nicholls

#9. Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

John Milton

#10. There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as a New Testament book. I don't see any evidence that he knew what was in the Gospels, or the letters of Paul, which I don't think he would have liked at all.

Elaine Pagels

#11. Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.

Blaise Pascal

#12. There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.

Saul Bellow

#13. He could not, in good conscience, promote any association with Daisy Green and her band of ladies. He could more easily recommend gang membership or fence-hopping into the polar bear enclosure at the Regents Park zoo.

Helen Simonson