#stream

But that which is called a Flower by any other name would still be as trusting and they were not to change her. In fact, she grew only more Hothouse-gorgeous as the bitterness poured down and off and around her and flooded the town, fertilizing crops, drowning fields, providing new homes for water birds and their babies, and bringing people from villages all around to swim in their beautiful blue lakes and marvel in the wonders of a village no longer called Numbskull but instead 'Miroslava' which means 'peace and glory.' "Numbskull's Flower and the Well-Meaning Poets Society." First published in State of Imagination ↗

— Meg Sefton

#short-story #slipstream #young-adult-fiction #beauty

Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow stream. If you are intent on capturing a worthwhile one, you need to stand very still, focus very hard on somewhere outside yourself, and then simply ignore it until it gets so close that it tickles your ankles. Then, pounce. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#slippery #stream #thoughts #inspirational

Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory??? Graystripe:...Drowning? Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory? Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there? ↗

— Erin Hunter

#graystripe #sarcasm #silverstream #warriors #fire

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#bird #deny #fish #gift #given

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. ↗

— Ovid

#always #cast #everything #expect #fish

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#am #between #floating #here #i

Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#american people #been #class #covers #mainstream

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#i #mainstream #mean #outsider #part

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture. ↗

— Rick Warren

#acting #by the time #culture #downstream #i

The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#divide #force #forward #i #looks