Stagnation

It's a simple need, wanting to learn as much as you can, and use it in your craft. I'm a writer, and I wish to understand as much as I can, to truly be able to write about everything to the best of my ability. And thus, I need to learn. But if college has taught me anything, it's taught me to share my learning with others. I'm unable to read without quoting. And thus this blog came into being. I will be having discussions, putting up short conversations, musings, drabbles, quotes, anything I find while I'm researching. I'll also be reblogging images, and making book reviews, everything that has to do with my learning.

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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.

Iran

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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

John Steinbeck

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Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

Malayan Proverb

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Tis not knowing much, but what is useful, that makes a wise man.

Thomas Fuller

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I always wanted a happy ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment, and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Gilda Radner

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God damn it, I knew it! Born in a hotel room and dying in a hotel room!

Eugene O' Neill

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It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Lady Bird Johnson

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I try not to drink too much, because when I'm drunk, I bite.

Bette Midler

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You sit in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man.

Bruce Aldells

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Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools, and women will take a little longer.

Spiro Agnew

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The future always arrives too fast...and in the wrong order.

Alvin Toffler

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He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time you hear a mousetrap snap, an angel gets set on fire.

Jack Handey

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Remember your humanity and forget the rest.

Albert Einstein

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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal is another matter.

Winston Churchill

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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Milton Berle