kaolin fire presents :: quotes

The path does not predict the future, it is only the foundation on which the future occurs. :: 04/19/2024 [David Gerrold]

03/18/2024 [Maryanna Quigless] :: A tree is able to wave because its roots are stable

Everyone feels impostor syndrome, so we write it off. We say that even though we feel it, it’s not “real”. But — maybe it’s actually the only ontologically valid response to the insufficiency of our minds. Maybe it’s just the bleakness of our smallness poking through, a hint of the yawning chasm toward what might be done by stronger information-processing systems :: 02/07/2024 [Dan Greenwald]

08/11/2021 [Dizzy Guest] :: All that I am to you is not ALL that I am.

Being creative means hearing yourself say "I have no clue what i am doing," but making stuff anyway. :: 09/10/2020 [Jeremy Tolbert]

01/24/2018 [Quinn Murphy] :: Where is your clever honesty? Your compassionate honesty? Your insightful honesty? Uplifting? Poetic? Empowering? Take your brutal honesty and go sit in the back with all the devil's advocates.

If you’re not part of the solution, you’re not using a strong enough solvent yet. :: 12/01/2017 [Ken Shields]

06/10/2017 [Jeff VanderMeer] :: I'm jaded and scarred enough to forgive myself for not writing on the road. And experienced enough to recognize I'm going to go through a week or two or scratchy brain and some small amount of depression after a book tour. Just 'cause you're out doing stuff and pushing and being on, and even if it begins to wear after a while, it's being at the center of something. And then you go back to not, which is a preferred state but one you then get used to again.

Science doesn't care if you believe. That's why I like magic. Magic cares. :: 12/13/2016 [David Sklar]

11/21/2016 [Mack Knopf] :: No, I'm not smart. I'm clever. Smart is knowing when to be clever.

To quote the thoughts of another man doesn't make them true or wise. It just shifts the blame. :: 05/20/2016 [GiGi Dane]

05/16/2016 [David Gerold] :: You are entitled to an opinion. But ignorance is not equal to education. It is not equal to expertise. An ignorant opinion is a fart coming out the wrong end.

Boson: the atomic unit of clowning. :: 01/26/2016 [Mark Nitzberg]

01/22/2016 [Jeremy Tolbert] :: Social media's flaw is that it encourages us to compare our day-to-day struggle with everyone else's greatest hits.

Believe = pretend. I prefer to know or to admit I don't know. :: 08/24/2013 [Gene Stewart / geste]

08/26/2013 [Odd - Mad World Radio] :: It's just wrong that the things that you want are cheaper than the things that you need.

It's not even winning/losing to my lizard brain. It's pass/fail. :: 08/14/2013 [Seanan McGuire]

2006 [Kevin Rauwolf] :: Refactor mercilessly. You don't always know how something will work until you build it, but by that point, you should be an expert. Use that knowledge.

Love grows everyday, now I need a bigger heart :: 11/12/2012 [PoetEngel]

02/06/2008 [Julia Bernd] :: There's that crap-ass wisdom that anything worth doing is worth doing well, but if there's too many things that seem worth doing, then they just can't be well, and then they stop feeling worth it, but by reason, they still are if they ever were...

Hope is like a large balloon. If you pin it wrong, it explodes. Slap some tape on it and poke as much as you like... it merely deflates. :: 04/02/2003 [Max Stockinger]

2000 [Brandon Kuczenski] :: You can't tell me what to do--you're not my dice!