Sticks of Destiny Sayings
The Sticks of Destiny are a Burning Man art project I've been doing for the past few years. This is a subset of the sayings I've put on the backs. You might also be interested in the web page about how I created the Sticks of Destiny.
My Sayings
- 15 Billion people by 2040; oh my!
- 2-4-6-8, Who do we appreciate? Ourselves! OURSELVES! Hooray!
- A bird in the hand makes it hard to masturbate.
- A great teacher never strives to explain; he simply stands next to you so you can see for yourself.
- A rainbow seen from the sky is a circle.
- All ignorance is constructed.
- Always speak your truth.
- Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. It takes on a whole new meaning here, doesn't it?
- Because of point of view your reality is quite different from mine.
- Becoming a nuclear power is nothing more than a doorway to extinction.
- Desert!? I thought they said it was in a dessert!
- Do I know you? Do I need to?
- Don't drop this stick; pass it along!
- Don't fear the future; it will be ok in the now.
- Don't let your fears drown out your humanity.
- Don't pocket this stick; pass it along!
- Don't worry. I forgot your name, too!
- Education is not a major issue -- it's the only issue.
- Energy, water, food: focus on those things.
- Every hour I spend commuting is taken off my time in hell.
- Every model has a point of view.
- Experience the infinite possibilities of now.
- Feel the fear and do it anyway.
- God loves you; that's good enough for me!
- God PUT those fossils there for you to find!
- Gravity is just a theory, too.
- Have your emotions. Don't let them have you.
- Here I sit all broken hearted; This stick and I will soon be parted.
- How do you know what's true and what isn't?
- How many burners does it take to read a popsicle stick?
- I don't believe in belief.
- I got the popsicle, now you get the stick!
- I love the hills; brown in summer, green in winter!
- I never met a man I didn't like! We haven't met, have we?
- I never noticed how much I liked animals until I came to the desert.
- I never noticed how much I liked trees until I came to the desert.
- I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- I never thought I'd miss mosquitoes until I came to the playa!
- I was going to give you something wonderful, but now I'm not.
- I went to Burning Man and all I got was this stick.
- If money didn't exist, I'd still want a better car than you.
- If people are starving, what good is money?
- If religion teaches hatred, how is it different from the KKK?
- If there's no God then what are we doing here?
- If you can imagine it, it's true.
- If you can read this you are too close.
- If you're not having fun you're doing something wrong.
- I'm here to be here with you; what are you here for?
- I'm not worried; if my fears come true I'll be dead.
- In a hundred years you'll be dead so what are you a afraid of?
- In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.
- Is this stick aware? What about the person reading it?
- It is obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
- It's kind of ironic that they call it "rush hour" traffic.
- It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.
- It's not hope that will save us but love.
- It's not right. It's not even wrong.
- It's not the destination, it's the journey.
- It's so much more friendly with two.
- I've always known there is a God but I don't know what religions are talking about.
- Just who do you think you are? And why don't you act like it?
- Keep things moving.
- Life can be painful and ugly but what can we do? Love.
- Life can be painful. But avoiding the pain is more so.
- Life can suck but it's the only gift He gave us.
- Life will keep knocking until you open the door.
- Like it or not, there IS a god and you are it (him, her, whatever).
- Love never fails.
- Love someone.
- Make the next words out of your mouth be true.
- Maybe I only exist in your mind.
- Mind fly to Japan / Soul revel in it's beauty / Body yearns to go
- Moderation in all things, including moderation!
- Mutually assured destruction worked for our parents & it will work for us.
- My father told me "Don't ever grow old," but I don't much like the alternative.
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Nothing good ever came out of fear, nothing bad out of love.
- Now read the other side.
- On earth truth is a highly flexible concept.
- Once you know you can't "unknow".
- One stick to rule them all.
- Only the madman is absolutely sure.
- Only when you are free of society's rules can you discover your own.
- Our survival is an all or nothing proposition.
- Pay attention: miracles happen all the time!
- People are more important than things.
- People starving isn't a good environment, either.
- Please do not confuse my faith with someone else's religion.
- Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
- Politics: better than bringing a gun to work.
- Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts.
- Power lines carry your life's blood.
- Religion is about control but faith is about love.
- Resistance is pain and pain resistance.
- Sand, sand everywhere but not a drop to drink.
- Science & religion both get stuck on "why".
- Selling weapons is like selling your children into slavery.
- Show this stick to someone and ask if it makes any sense to *them*.
- So many cars, so little point.
- So you don't believe Darwin; how about Galileo?
- Speak your truth.
- Stick Error! Abort, Retry, Ignore?
- Sticks of Destiny: Collect them ALL!
- Stop worrying about it and get ready for whatever is next.
- Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Technology may well be our doom but it's also the only possible savior.
- The clock is ticking and we have decisions to make.
- The desert is not for everyone; in fact, it's not for anyone.
- The future is a race between education and catastrophe.
- The future is in humanity's hands and there is much hope in that.
- The future is now... now... now...
- The future lies in our capacity to love.
- The future's not here, the past is gone, all there is is now.
- The model is not the thing.
- The one thing you know is that you don't really know anything.
- The only difference between good and bad is you.
- The only power you have comes in the now.
- The question is not whether there are aliens but why we don't see more of them.
- The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
- The story is just the frame of reality.
- The story of the grasshopper and the ant was written by an ant.
- The term "Christianity" is so heavily overloaded that it's almost meaningless.
- The universe is recreated every instant. You're still here! Someone must love you very much!
- The word religion carries so much baggage that it practically can't move.
- There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.
- There is only one thing.
- There isn't really any such thing as an "objective" reality.
- Things exist that you can't eat or fuck.
- Thinking is linking.
- This is not a popsicle stick.
- This moment will never come again. Live it!
- This moment will never come again. Love it!
- This stick expired yesterday.
- This stick has expired; please upgrade.
- This stick inspected by number 6.
- This stick intentionally left blank.
- This would make a great beach if only we had an ocean.
- To know us is to love us.
- To whom would you bend you knee?
- Tree, tree, where you be? Why can't you show some green for me?
- Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- Trying to enhance experience is like gilding the lily.
- Unfair is just something you made up.
- Use your internal voice!
- We are all in the Red King's dream.
- We are all the center of a reality.
- We could avoid the fate of the dinosaurs but will we?
- We don't need to protect Mother Earth, we need to keep her from evicting us.
- We live in interesting times: both a blessing and a curse.
- We love our technology but let's not get carried away.
- We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
- We must give up oil! Our very lives are at stake.
- We're all winners. We just don't like the event we got the gold for.
- We're close to the limit of what this world can handle.
- We're here, we fear, get over it.
- We're in the same boat: paddle, bail or sleep but stop poking holes in the bottom!
- What are you looking at? Go experience something!
- What beliefs would you die for?
- What made us think burning hydrocarbons was a good idea?
- What makes us think we know anything?
- What the hell are we doing here?
- When I was a kid we had a sand box. Look at us now!
- When life knocks on your door answer -- or it will knock harder.
- When traffic merges let the other guy in.
- When we find the Secret, we're going to be SO embarrassed!
- Who am I to you?
- Who are you?
- Why are you here? After that, the rest is easy.
- Why DO we compare ourselves to other people?
- Why should you like the future? Your grandparents don't like the present!
- Without electricity we'd be worse off than the Romans.
- Without the rule of law we're screwed.
- Ye cannae change the laws of physics. But everything else is pretty flexible.
- You are the author, everything else is just your book.
- You cannot possibly believe that this dirt ball we live on is all there is!
- you can't be fixed because you aren't broken.
- Your emotions are yours, they're not you.
- You're perfect the way you are.
Sayings I like
- Define God. Give two examples.
- If a man speaks in the forest and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong?
- I'm not perfect; I'm perfecting.
- Look before you leap -- but he who hesitates is lost.
- Conservatives always have something to conserve.
- Everything I say is a lie.
- Is that the truth that hurts or the truth that sets you free?
- Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
- Life's a bitch and then you die.
- Lord, don't give me what I deserve; mercy, I want mercy!
- My imaginary friend can beat your imaginary friend!
- My karma ran over your dogma.
- Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of humanity. Women too.
- Ok, but when the water gets up to my lower lip, I'm going to tell SOMEBODY!
- The opposite of love is fear, not hate.
- But the greatest of these is love.
- Don't follow leaders; watch the parking meters.
- Don't take life seriously; you'll never get out of it alive.
- God started a joke that set the whole world laughing.
- If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
- If you can fake sincerity, the rest is easy.
- IS NOT IS NOT NOT IS.
- It felt good to get out of the rain.
- Man with a hammer.
- There is no reason to go beyond reasonableness.
- Adequate is better than perfect because it's cheaper.
- Aim higher.
- All I want is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
- Believe in two impossible things before breakfast.
- Blue skies, nothing but blue skies do I see.
- Fear is the little death that brings total annihilation.
- Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
- I met a fool i' the desert. A motley fool.
- I told them once, I told them twice. They would not listen to advice.
- I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.
- I was going to tell you the secret of the universe but I forgot it.
- If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.
- I'm proud to be part of the original crowd.
- In the desert you can't remember your name.
- Learning is failure with dignity.
- Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
- Life is like a sewer -- what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
- Never teach a pig to sing.
- Nine women cannot make a baby in a month.
- No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, no birds, no fruits, no flowers, no leaves - November!
- Not all who wander are lost.
- Patience?! How long will that take?
- Pump don't work cuz the vandals took the handle.
- Shine on, you crazy diamond.
- Sing joy spring!
- The best way to be unprepared is to plan.
- The requirements of an organization are always met at the extremities.
- The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
- The Secret of the Universe: "Always...no wait...never..."
- The truth will set you free and make you laugh.
- There's no point in knocking; I'm on the same side of the door as you!
- Those French have a different word for everything.
- We are as gods so we might as well get good at it.
- When all you got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
- When the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
- Why, this is very midsummer madness.
- Wisdom is the heart and the mind together.
- You cannot create in your image what I have created in Mine.
- You have to be honest to live outside the law.
- You're gonna have to trust someone.
- Drink deep of what's in front of you.
- Let go, let God.
- The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- You can do anything except avoid the consequences of your actions.
- You gotta book yourself a comic in your act.
- In theory, theory is like practice. In practice, it isn't.
- When the water get up to my lower lip, I'm going tell somebody!