Stationary Quotes

“Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore.”
― Richard Brautigan, در رؤیای بابل

“What will I write in this beautiful book?
She carried the book to class for the rest of the day, and that night she put it under her pillow, still blank. She liked it blank right now, liked to know that it was waiting, listening. Just like her friends.”
― Simone St. James, The Broken Girls

“Sometimes, when it’s going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell. Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Words are dead, until action brings them life.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Our knowledge of dynamic processes is necessarily inferior to our ability to describe stationary conditions.”
― Oskar Morgenstern, On the Accuracy of Economic Observations

“Reality is stationary, but is given the illusion of movement by our memory.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“That statues are motionless would be true only if the earth were the universe.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Movement is the illusion created by the extremely fast, involuntary comparison of what is with what was.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A stationary stone ship... A granite boat that doesn't pitch... that takes us nowhere... that never docks... Onboard this lighthouse, we'll never get ashore...”
― Christophe Chabouté, Alone

“I had a bit of a habit of losing myself while perusing stationary.”
― RavensDagger, Dead Tired 1