180000 famous quotes part 157 – 156001 to 157000

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180000 famous quotes part 157 – 156001 to 157000

156001. There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them. – Casey Stengel

156002. They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games. – Casey Stengel

156003. They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that? – Casey Stengel

156004. They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I’ll never make the mistake of being seventy again. – Casey Stengel

156005. Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em. – Casey Stengel

156006. When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. – Casey Stengel

156007. Without losers, where would the winners be? – Casey Stengel

156008. You got to get twenty-seven outs to win. – Casey Stengel

156009. You gotta learn that if you don’t get it by midnight, chances are you ain’t gonna get it, and if you do, it ain’t worth it. – Casey Stengel

156010. You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls. – Casey Stengel

156011. The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it. – Casey Stengel

156012. If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people. – Richard Stengel

156013. The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack. – Richard Stengel

156014. Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now. – Mattie Stepanek

156015. While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed. – Mattie Stepanek

156016. Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. – Mattie Stepanek

156017. There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy. – Mattie Stepanek

156018. The way of life is not as easy as some people think… like me. – Mattie Stepanek

156019. Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future. – Mattie Stepanek

156020. Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever. – Mattie Stepanek

156021. You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact. – George Stephanopoulos

156022. Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life. – George Stephanopoulos

156023. The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. – George Stephanopoulos

156024. For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn’t debase the office with an impulsive overreaction. – George Stephanopoulos

156025. If we can kill Saddam, we should. – George Stephanopoulos

156026. It’s going to be a long, hot summer. The hotter it gets in Baghdad, the hotter it will get in D.C. – George Stephanopoulos

156027. The longer the president goes without telling his side of the story, the more unease there will be in the public. – George Stephanopoulos

156028. There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years The American people saw through those investigations. They voted for the president. And despite all of this time and attention, nothing has turned up because the president and the first lady did nothing wrong. – George Stephanopoulos

156029. The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner? – George Stephanopoulos

156030. Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch. – George Stephen

156031. A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted. – George Stephen

156032. During that first year, I felt guilty that my wife was out working bringing in all our income, while I was at home playing on the computer, so I made myself treat writing like a job. – George Stephen

156033. For each book, the time is also broken up. – George Stephen

156034. For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn’t outline much. I had a vague idea of the story. – George Stephen

156035. I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn’t stop until she got home. – George Stephen

156036. Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years. – George Stephen

156037. When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing. – George Stephen

156038. So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books. – George Stephen

156039. When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics. – George Stephen

156040. Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural. – George Stephen

156041. The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing. – George Stephen

156042. In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels. – George Stephen

156043. So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing. – George Stephen

156044. The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story’s flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it’s almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you’ve already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks. – George Stephen

156045. Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I’d just finished was horror, too. – George Stephen

156046. I’ve been reading horror since I was five years old. – George Stephen

156047. I’m a fan of short horror fiction… in fact, the most memorable horror I’ve read is of the short variety… but I have a hard time pulling it off myself. – George Stephen

156048. I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week. – George Stephen

156049. I’ve devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don’t have to depend on writing fiction for my income. – George Stephen

156050. On the other hand, now that I’m not dependent on fiction for my income, I’ve been writing more short stories despite the fact that there’s no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance. – George Stephen

156051. Chance is a name for our ignorance. – Leslie Stephen

156052. Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers. – Leslie Stephen

156053. The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. – Leslie Stephen

156054. If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. – Leslie Stephen

156055. If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt. – Leslie Stephen

156056. Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service. – Leslie Stephen

156057. We cannot both preach and administer financial matters. – Saint Stephen

156058. You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God. – Saint Stephen

156059. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. – Alexander Hamilton Stephens

156060. You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive. – James Stephens

156061. Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. – James Stephens

156062. A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find. – James Stephens

156063. Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. – James Stephens

156064. Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. – James Stephens

156065. What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow. – James Stephens

156066. Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies. – James Stephens

156067. Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen. – James Stephens

156068. A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust. – James Stephens

156069. Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it. – James Stephens

156070. The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country. – George Stephenson

156071. I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway. – George Stephenson

156072. I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans. – George Stephenson

156073. The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay. – George Stephenson

156074. Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment. – Neal Stephenson

156075. The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. – Neal Stephenson

156076. The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. – Neal Stephenson

156077. One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he’s socially inept – because everybody’s been there – but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it. – Neal Stephenson

156078. Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America’s like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. – Neal Stephenson

156079. It is the fate of operating systems to become free. – Neal Stephenson

156080. Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was. – Neal Stephenson

156081. So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone. – Pamela Stephenson

156082. Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity. – Pamela Stephenson

156083. I don’t like the term mid-life crisis. – Pamela Stephenson

156084. I don’t think I’m generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all. – Pamela Stephenson

156085. I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I’d watch the ships coming in and going out. – Pamela Stephenson

156086. I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important. – Pamela Stephenson

156087. I’ve really written my books for my husband and our family. They’ve brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long. – Pamela Stephenson

156088. It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing. – Pamela Stephenson

156089. Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them. – Pamela Stephenson

156090. Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere. – Pamela Stephenson

156091. Sexual dreams aren’t usually about sex. – Pamela Stephenson

156092. After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself. – Pamela Stephenson

156093. Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic. – Pamela Stephenson

156094. The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it’s a sort of biblical thing. It’s something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience. – Pamela Stephenson

156095. The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one’s patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful. – Pamela Stephenson

156096. There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life. – Pamela Stephenson

156097. There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography. – Pamela Stephenson

156098. There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can’t be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on. – Pamela Stephenson

156099. There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us. – Pamela Stephenson

156100. There’s been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one. – Pamela Stephenson

156101. We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn’t describe myself as an animal person. – Pamela Stephenson

156102. When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many. – Pamela Stephenson

156103. Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person’s biography. – Pamela Stephenson

156104. We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance. – William Stephenson

156105. This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more. – William Stephenson

156106. I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That’s how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today. – Bruce Sterling

156107. The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing. – Bruce Sterling

156108. The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses. – Bruce Sterling

156109. Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that’s going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don’t have many illusions about this, but I’m not cynical about it. – Bruce Sterling

156110. Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone’s illiterate, but you wouldn’t really call that privacy. That’s ignorance. – Bruce Sterling

156111. Political people don’t solve stuff – not really. Political people are like guys in pop music. – Bruce Sterling

156112. People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They’re trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they’re having mixed success at the job. – Bruce Sterling

156113. One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing. – Bruce Sterling

156114. My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? – Bruce Sterling

156115. If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military. – Bruce Sterling

156116. If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what’s supposed to come next. – Bruce Sterling

156117. You don’t get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You’re always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information. – Bruce Sterling

156118. I wouldn’t describe that “position” as “parasitic.” I’d describe that experience as “edifying.” I don’t merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here. – Bruce Sterling

156119. Well, they didn’t lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it’s just a few large buildings and aircraft, it’s not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin. – Bruce Sterling

156120. I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away… it was already here. I just wasn’t aware of it yet. – Bruce Sterling

156121. I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it’s pleasant to write some nonfiction about it. – Bruce Sterling

156122. I haven’t had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy. – Bruce Sterling

156123. I don’t think there’s much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere. – Bruce Sterling

156124. I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote. – Bruce Sterling

156125. Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible. – Bruce Sterling

156126. A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend. – Bruce Sterling

156127. We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that “9/11”? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we’d give that huge event a different name. – Bruce Sterling

156128. War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we’re very unlikely to accept or recognize “world peace” even when we get it. – Bruce Sterling

156129. They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they’ll be called “war” too. And there will still be no conventional war. – Bruce Sterling

156130. I’m an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex. – Bruce Sterling

156131. We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys. – Bruce Sterling

156132. Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will. – John Sterling

156133. Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. – John Sterling

156134. Man is a substance clad in shadows. – John Sterling

156135. Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. – John Sterling

156136. Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. – John Sterling

156137. The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. – John Sterling

156138. There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies. – John Sterling

156139. Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it. – John Sterling

156140. American workers won’t be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India. – Andy Stern

156141. It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing. – Andy Stern

156142. The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers’ strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer. – Andy Stern

156143. Employers need to recognize that the world has changed and there are people who would like to help them provide solution in ways that are new, modern and that add value to companies. – Andy Stern

156144. Our elections are free, it’s in the results where eventually we pay. – Bill Stern

156145. I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do. – Howard Stern

156146. And rather than hide that, I would rather put that out on the radio and let someone see the full range of emotions. If you’re going to be strong on the radio, you got to let it all out, even the ugly stuff. And you can’t apologize for it. – Howard Stern

156147. I believe I am doing the work for humanity. This show is so uplifting. – Howard Stern

156148. I don’t like being 50 and I don’t like thinking about death. – Howard Stern

156149. Late night television is ready for someone like me… standards have gone to an all-time low. – Howard Stern

156150. Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that’s all you’ve got, you’re dead in the water. It’s not good. – Howard Stern

156151. When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience. – Howard Stern

156152. Well, first of all, I’m worth every penny. – Howard Stern

156153. We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel. – Howard Stern

156154. There are things that I won’t do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won’t you do. I say, well, you know, you’ve got to find out when you’re on the air. – Howard Stern

156155. ‘The New York Times’ list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor’s choice. It sure isn’t based on sales. – Howard Stern

156156. I don’t talk about my salary. – Howard Stern

156157. My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing. – Howard Stern

156158. I don’t think there’s one thing I’ve ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene. – Howard Stern

156159. I’m sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don’t think there’s any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock. – Howard Stern

156160. I will never feel successful. – Howard Stern

156161. I think people of lesser talent will become stars. – Howard Stern

156162. I think I’m probably a little too desperate to be successful. – Howard Stern

156163. I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated. – Howard Stern

156164. I’m on the air five hours, and I blurt out anything in my head. Dangerous? Maybe. – Howard Stern

156165. Okay, well, I guess I’m still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my back is up against the wall, I will say vicious things. – Howard Stern

156166. It’s no treat being in bed with me. – Howard Stern

156167. There are more bad musicians than there is bad music. – Isaac Stern

156168. Music is like making love: either all or nothing. – Isaac Stern

156169. Mozart’s music is like an X-ray of your soul – it shows what is there, and what isn’t. – Isaac Stern

156170. Listen, I will now tell you the truth and there is no other. – Isaac Stern

156171. Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. – Isaac Stern

156172. A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. – Isaac Stern

156173. Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. – Laurence Stern

156174. ‘Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one. – Laurence Stern

156175. I think it’s important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food. – Nicholas Stern

156176. Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better. – Nicholas Stern

156177. Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past. – Robert A. M. Stern

156178. The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you’re talking about building a house, you’re talking about dreams. – Robert A. M. Stern

156179. In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test. – Robert Sternberg

156180. ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they’re getting the business. – Robert Sternberg

156181. And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing. – Robert Sternberg

156182. And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again. – Robert Sternberg

156183. But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you’re stupid, they have low expectations for you. – Robert Sternberg

156184. But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it. – Robert Sternberg

156185. I’ve taught statistics, math courses and what I’ve found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you’ll have one group of kids doing well. – Robert Sternberg

156186. If there’s going to be an SAT, it’s probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I’m sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training. – Robert Sternberg

156187. If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they’re not going to believe it, and #B, they’re going to invest their time in other things anyway. – Robert Sternberg

156188. And if we don’t have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions? – Robert Sternberg

156189. In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can’t learn well that way don’t have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher’s teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn. – Robert Sternberg

156190. All of the studies we do in my group are quantified. – Robert Sternberg

156191. In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we’ll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it’s by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances. – Robert Sternberg

156192. Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. – Robert Sternberg

156193. So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get. – Robert Sternberg

156194. The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven’t changed for 60, 70 years. – Robert Sternberg

156195. The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know. – Robert Sternberg

156196. There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that’s what is unique about them. – Robert Sternberg

156197. To the Kenyan families, school doesn’t really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they’re spending their time learning things that are important to them. – Robert Sternberg

156198. Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn’t correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ. – Robert Sternberg

156199. Well, I don’t think that the SAT is a scam. – Robert Sternberg

156200. If you’re not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can’t think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left. – Robert Sternberg

156201. Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. – Laurence Sterne

156202. I am persuaded that every time a man smiles – but much more so when he laughs – it adds something to this fragment of life. – Laurence Sterne

156203. I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. – Laurence Sterne

156204. I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it. – Laurence Sterne

156205. I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me. – Laurence Sterne

156206. In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them. – Laurence Sterne

156207. In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. – Laurence Sterne

156208. Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. – Laurence Sterne

156209. Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. – Laurence Sterne

156210. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. – Laurence Sterne

156211. Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. – Laurence Sterne

156212. Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. – Laurence Sterne

156213. One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct. – Laurence Sterne

156214. Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, – though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, – the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! – Laurence Sterne

156215. Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. – Laurence Sterne

156216. Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. – Laurence Sterne

156217. Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. – Laurence Sterne

156218. Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves. – Laurence Sterne

156219. People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. – Laurence Sterne

156220. When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage – that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain. – Laurence Sterne

156221. What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another! – Laurence Sterne

156222. Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy. – Laurence Sterne

156223. Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current. – Laurence Sterne

156224. Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. – Laurence Sterne

156225. There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture. – Laurence Sterne

156226. The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance. – Laurence Sterne

156227. The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. – Laurence Sterne

156228. So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil. – Laurence Sterne

156229. It is a great pity but tis certain from every day’s observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out. – Laurence Sterne

156230. People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. – Laurence Sterne

156231. When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains. – Laurence Sterne

156232. Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. – Laurence Sterne

156233. But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it. – Laurence Sterne

156234. An English man does not travel to see English men. – Laurence Sterne

156235. An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. – Laurence Sterne

156236. Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man’s stature as to his happiness. – Laurence Sterne

156237. A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one. – Laurence Sterne

156238. For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies. – Laurence Sterne

156239. Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. – Laurence Sterne

156240. Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence. – Brooks Stevens

156241. I believe in status symbols. – Brooks Stevens

156242. Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now. – Brooks Stevens

156243. When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah. – Cat Stevens

156244. Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities. – Cat Stevens

156245. To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are. – Cat Stevens

156246. There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. – Cat Stevens

156247. Though times have changed, it’s a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe. – Cat Stevens

156248. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again. – Cat Stevens

156249. The words of the songs speak for themselves. – Cat Stevens

156250. The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur’an was the message of unity and peace. – Cat Stevens

156251. They have hijacked my religion. – Cat Stevens

156252. This is the beauty of the Qur’an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur’an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God’s creation in general. – Cat Stevens

156253. Man is created to be God’s deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life. – Cat Stevens

156254. I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I’m an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after. – Cat Stevens

156255. In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. – Cat Stevens

156256. I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry. – Cat Stevens

156257. I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated. – Cat Stevens

156258. I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur’an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet… we will be successful. – Cat Stevens

156259. I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism. – Cat Stevens

156260. I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents. – Cat Stevens

156261. I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home. – Cat Stevens

156262. I’ve studied various schools of thought… I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I’ve found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times. – Cat Stevens

156263. If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there’s a million ways to be, you know that there are. – Cat Stevens

156264. In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam’s message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind. – Cat Stevens

156265. I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money. – Cat Stevens

156266. Music is part of God’s universe. – Cat Stevens

156267. The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It’s always been there. But there’s also an incredible passion connected to it; it’s not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs. – Cat Stevens

156268. The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events. – Cat Stevens

156269. The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God’s message. – Cat Stevens

156270. The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics. – Cat Stevens

156271. Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context. – Cat Stevens

156272. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I’d been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood. – Cat Stevens

156273. Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings. – Cat Stevens

156274. In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn’t enable you to do that. It wasn’t my style. – Cat Stevens

156275. Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony. – Cat Stevens

156276. Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam. – Cat Stevens

156277. I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom. – Cat Stevens

156278. It’s very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work. – Cat Stevens

156279. Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah. – Cat Stevens

156280. It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice. – Cat Stevens

156281. Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. – Cat Stevens

156282. I’ve returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before. – Cat Stevens

156283. Communal well-being is central to human life. – Cat Stevens

156284. Because I don’t play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally. – Cat Stevens

156285. All things can be forgiven if we can progress. – Cat Stevens

156286. A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief. – Cat Stevens

156287. Ever since I became a Muslim, I’ve had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to. – Cat Stevens

156288. It’s important for us to latch onto the people that we love. – Connie Stevens

156289. She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop. – Connie Stevens

156290. Pet me, touch me, love me, that’s what I get when I perform. That’s when I’m really getting what I want. – Connie Stevens

156291. Nothing you wear is more important than your smile. – Connie Stevens

156292. I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls. – Connie Stevens

156293. I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the ’60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories. – Connie Stevens

156294. I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs. – Connie Stevens

156295. Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, they must have some boundaries. I am against hitting them though; just send the vibe and that will do it. – Connie Stevens

156296. We didn’t talk about the decision at all, which was great, just to get together as friends. The only thing he said to me was ‘It’s your decision. Just do what you have to do and I will back you 100 per cent. – Craig Stevens

156297. As expanding economies continue to grow, the one source of energy that we can develop rapidly, cheaply and with next-to-no emissions is nuclear energy. – Craig Stevens

156298. When assumptions were made that I was going to bail out there was a little part of my brain that thought ‘I am going to do to prove them wrong’. In the end that wouldn’t be coming from my heart and doing what was right. – Craig Stevens

156299. There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting. – Craig Stevens

156300. No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science. – Craig Stevens

156301. The decision I’ve made has come from my heart. That’s me, to follow my heart. – Craig Stevens

156302. I used to be more of a wild kid. But I’ve slowed down. – Fisher Stevens

156303. Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I’m shooting an episode and don’t even know how it’s going to end because I haven’t read that yet. – Fisher Stevens

156304. Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible. – Fisher Stevens

156305. The reason I took Early Edition – besides the fact that I liked it – was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It’s a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies. – Fisher Stevens

156306. No, but I’m really lucky, because I’m not the superhero. – Fisher Stevens

156307. It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over. – Fisher Stevens

156308. I’m really obsessed with the past. – Fisher Stevens

156309. I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it’s a little edgy for Saturday night. – Fisher Stevens

156310. But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they’re in a dire situation or comedic situation. – Fisher Stevens

156311. I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I’m upset that I was born a white Jewish male. I’ve been angry since. – Fisher Stevens

156312. I like people and get along, and I’m afraid to express my anger and my rage. – Fisher Stevens

156313. I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer. – Fisher Stevens

156314. But I’m trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life. – Fisher Stevens

156315. But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too. – Fisher Stevens

156316. But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it’s a cold day in Chicago, it’s nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he’s so easy to scream at, you know? – Fisher Stevens

156317. And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night. – Fisher Stevens

156318. But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn’t think that. I never know. – Fisher Stevens

156319. I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist. – Fisher Stevens

156320. You know, it’s a very sexist society, Indonesia. – Fisher Stevens

156321. I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal. – George Stevens

156322. For me it’s absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can’t think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start. – George Stevens

156323. The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience. – George Stevens

156324. I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality… That’s a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others. – George Stevens

156325. Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned. – John Paul Stevens

156326. It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written. – John Paul Stevens

156327. The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. – John Paul Stevens

156328. The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society. – John Paul Stevens

156329. They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade. – John Paul Stevens

156330. To make a coverage decision, doesn’t one have to make a medical judgment? – John Paul Stevens

156331. To show a ‘well-founded fear of persecution,’ an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country. – John Paul Stevens

156332. One of the best things about paintings is their silence – which prompts reflection and random reverie. – Mark Stevens

156333. Shouldn’t a great museum foster serious seeing before all else? – Mark Stevens

156334. I’d love to break America, like all artists do. It’s a lot of work but, you know, it’s got to be done! – Rachel Stevens

156335. In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me – My horizon’s wide open now. It’s scary and it’s daunting, but it’s an absolute thrill. I feel brand new! – Rachel Stevens

156336. Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I’m really proud that I had a part in them. – Rachel Stevens

156337. I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn. – Rachel Stevens

156338. I’m a terrible trumpet player. – Ray Stevens

156339. The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation. – Stanley Smith Stevens

156340. A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology. – Stanley Smith Stevens

156341. The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used. – Stanley Smith Stevens

156342. There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force. – Ted Stevens

156343. What we have, however, is an issue that has tremendous impact here at home, and we believe that Americans are starting to feel vulnerable, not just from what is going on around the world but right here in the United States. – Ted Stevens

156344. I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation’s intelligence community. – Ted Stevens

156345. I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved. – Ted Stevens

156346. I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them. – Ted Stevens

156347. People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget. – Ted Stevens

156348. I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context. – Ted Stevens

156349. I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me. – Ted Stevens

156350. Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. – Thaddeus Stevens

156351. The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer. – Thaddeus Stevens

156352. I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days. – W. Richard Stevens

156353. After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field. – W. Richard Stevens

156354. In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school. – W. Richard Stevens

156355. Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. – Wallace Stevens

156356. Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. – Wallace Stevens

156357. Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! – Wallace Stevens

156358. Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. – Wallace Stevens

156359. Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. – Wallace Stevens

156360. Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof. – Wallace Stevens

156361. One cannot spend one’s time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. – Wallace Stevens

156362. Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. – Wallace Stevens

156363. Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. – Wallace Stevens

156364. The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. – Wallace Stevens

156365. New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. – Wallace Stevens

156366. Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. – Wallace Stevens

156367. The fire burns as the novel taught it how. – Wallace Stevens

156368. One’s ignorance is one’s chief asset. – Wallace Stevens

156369. I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. – Wallace Stevens

156370. How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. – Wallace Stevens

156371. Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace Stevens

156372. Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. – Wallace Stevens

156373. After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs. – Wallace Stevens

156374. A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. – Wallace Stevens

156375. A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. – Wallace Stevens

156376. Intolerance respecting other people’s religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people’s art. – Wallace Stevens

156377. Money is a kind of poetry. – Wallace Stevens

156378. It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. – Wallace Stevens

156379. As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. – Wallace Stevens

156380. It can never be satisfied, the mind, never. – Wallace Stevens

156381. In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. – Wallace Stevens

156382. In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. – Wallace Stevens

156383. If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. – Wallace Stevens

156384. If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. – Wallace Stevens

156385. The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. – Wallace Stevens

156386. The point of vision and desire are the same. – Wallace Stevens

156387. The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire. – Wallace Stevens

156388. The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. – Wallace Stevens

156389. Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic. – Wallace Stevens

156390. The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. – Wallace Stevens

156391. The poet is the priest of the invisible. – Wallace Stevens

156392. The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. – Wallace Stevens

156393. The imagination is man’s power over nature. – Wallace Stevens

156394. The genuine artist is never “true to life.” He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life. – Wallace Stevens

156395. To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. – Wallace Stevens

156396. We say God and the imagination are one… How high that highest candle lights the dark. – Wallace Stevens

156397. What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one’s meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality. – Wallace Stevens

156398. The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156399. The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156400. The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156401. The human race has improved everything, but the human race. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156402. The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156403. The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156404. The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156405. That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156406. Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156407. Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it’s more friendly to the United States. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156408. Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156409. We mean by “politics” the people’s business – the most important business there is. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156410. There is a spiritual hunger in the world today – and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156411. You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156412. We have confused the free with the free and easy. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156413. Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156414. There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156415. What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156416. The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156417. We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156418. We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it’s vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it’s security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156419. To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156420. We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156421. Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156422. You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity – the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156423. The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations – great or small – to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156424. The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156425. Making peace is harder than making war. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156426. Laws are never as effective as habits. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156427. Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156428. In America any boy may become President and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156429. In quiet places, reason abounds. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156430. It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156431. It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156432. It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156433. Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156434. Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156435. Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156436. Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156437. Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156438. Nature is neutral. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156439. Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156440. Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156441. Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156442. On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156443. On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156444. Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156445. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156446. I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156447. Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156448. If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156449. Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity – in short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156450. Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156451. Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156452. Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156453. Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156454. Freedom rings where opinions clash. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156455. I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156456. An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156457. I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156458. I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156459. I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign… and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156460. I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends… that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156461. I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156462. He who slings mud generally loses ground. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156463. A hungry man is not a free man. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156464. Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156465. As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156466. A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156467. A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156468. A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156469. Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156470. After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156471. All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156472. An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156473. A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you. – Adlai E. Stevenson

156474. Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. – Adlai Stevenson

156475. In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes! – Adlai Stevenson

156476. Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation. – Adlai Stevenson

156477. Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. – Adlai Stevenson

156478. The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. – Adlai Stevenson

156479. I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. – Adlai Stevenson

156480. A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House. – Adlai Stevenson

156481. The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers. – Adlai Stevenson

156482. There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls. – Adlai Stevenson

156483. A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. – Adlai Stevenson

156484. The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff. – Adlai Stevenson

156485. We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations. – Adlai Stevenson

156486. With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America’s exalted purpose and inspiring way of life? – Adlai Stevenson

156487. We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source. – Adlai Stevenson

156488. To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge. – Adlai Stevenson

156489. I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound. – Anne Stevenson

156490. A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings – about human feelings and frailties. – Anne Stevenson

156491. I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy. – Anne Stevenson

156492. I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art. – Anne Stevenson

156493. I don’t like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. – Anne Stevenson

156494. I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life – though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. – Anne Stevenson

156495. I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas. – Anne Stevenson

156496. I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since. – Anne Stevenson

156497. I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn’t mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them. – Anne Stevenson

156498. Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. – Anne Stevenson

156499. I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson. – Anne Stevenson

156500. Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost. – Anne Stevenson

156501. I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn’t otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me. – Anne Stevenson

156502. I’m not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word’s meaning, or multiple meanings. – Anne Stevenson

156503. My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do. – Anne Stevenson

156504. Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister – who is a children’s writer married to a poet. – Anne Stevenson

156505. Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. – Anne Stevenson

156506. Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 – and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally. – Anne Stevenson

156507. There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. – Anne Stevenson

156508. When everything is for ‘fun’ nothing is for the good. – Anne Stevenson

156509. Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don’t ignore feelings and emotions. – Anne Stevenson

156510. I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. – Anne Stevenson

156511. I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won’t live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century. – Anne Stevenson

156512. I sometimes think that theatre is a torture. – Juliet Stevenson

156513. No, I’m happy doing this. Five sweaters and a pair of dirty pants, you can make pretty good money. – McLean Stevenson

156514. I tell you, I’m really not what you’d call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola. – McLean Stevenson

156515. I definitely think we should not serve alcoholic beverages at the lunch break. – McLean Stevenson

156516. Suddenly you’re surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don’t know what they want, and you don’t know what they want, unless it’s an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another. – Parker Stevenson

156517. If I have a Sunday free, I’ll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water. – Parker Stevenson

156518. If it seems like you’re doing work when you’re acting, then you’re doing something wrong. – Parker Stevenson

156519. In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple. – Parker Stevenson

156520. In this business, you just never know from day to day. It’s one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I’m going to be doing. – Parker Stevenson

156521. I’m going to go away on vacation, I’m going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it’s important to sit back and think about what you want. – Parker Stevenson

156522. My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. – Parker Stevenson

156523. I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I’d like to play that’s not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible. – Parker Stevenson

156524. The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You’re so Southern California. It was a surprise to me. – Parker Stevenson

156525. I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that’s what I studied in college. That’s what I always wanted to do. – Parker Stevenson

156526. Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the ’40s. – Parker Stevenson

156527. What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can. – Parker Stevenson

156528. I do interviews because it’s a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don’t have any great wisdom. – Parker Stevenson

156529. Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the ’40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17. – Parker Stevenson

156530. I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn’t afford it. It was a jewel. – Parker Stevenson

156531. The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low. – Parker Stevenson

156532. You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day. – Parker Stevenson

156533. I’m more interested in where I’ll be in five or 10 years than where I am now. – Parker Stevenson

156534. I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they’re excited about. – Parker Stevenson

156535. You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you’re aware of the ratings, you aren’t prepared for the response of the fans. – Parker Stevenson

156536. I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better. – Parker Stevenson

156537. I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn’t occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam. – Parker Stevenson

156538. I still think of myself really as a New Yorker. – Parker Stevenson

156539. I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we’d all pull together. – Parker Stevenson

156540. I used to a lot. I used to go dancing. – Parker Stevenson

156541. I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey. – Parker Stevenson

156542. I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much. – Parker Stevenson

156543. During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people’s careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot. – Parker Stevenson

156544. California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There’s a lot of craziness out there. – Parker Stevenson

156545. Good work is good work wherever it’s done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials. – Parker Stevenson

156546. I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn’t find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine. – Parker Stevenson

156547. The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156548. So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156549. Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156550. Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156551. That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156552. The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156553. The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156554. The cruelest lies are often told in silence. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156555. The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156556. Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156557. The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156558. The obscurest epoch is today. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156559. The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156560. You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156561. The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156562. Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156563. Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156564. Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156565. Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156566. Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156567. Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156568. No man is useless while he has a friend. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156569. So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156570. Nothing made by brute force lasts. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156571. Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156572. Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? – Robert Louis Stevenson

156573. Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156574. Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156575. Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156576. Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156577. The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156578. Nothing like a little judicious levity. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156579. Wine is bottled poetry. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156580. The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156581. We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156582. Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156583. Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156584. When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156585. You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156586. When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156587. We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156588. You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156589. You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156590. You can kill the body but not the spirit. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156591. You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156592. There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156593. You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? – Robert Louis Stevenson

156594. When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156595. To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156596. The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156597. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156598. There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156599. There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156600. There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156601. There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156602. We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156603. To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156604. We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156605. To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156606. To forget oneself is to be happy. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156607. To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156608. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156609. Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156610. The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156611. To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156612. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156613. Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156614. For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156615. Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156616. Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156617. Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156618. Every one lives by selling something. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156619. Every man has a sane spot somewhere. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156620. He who sows hurry reaps indigestion. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156621. Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156622. Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156623. Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156624. An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156625. All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156626. All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156627. Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156628. A friend is a gift you give yourself. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156629. The world has no room for cowards. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156630. Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156631. Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156632. It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156633. Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156634. Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156635. Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156636. I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156637. It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156638. It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156639. It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156640. It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156641. It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156642. I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156643. It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156644. If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156645. I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156646. If we take matrimony at it’s lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156647. If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156648. I’ve a grand memory for forgetting. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156649. I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156650. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156651. I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156652. I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. – Robert Louis Stevenson

156653. You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages. – Al Stewart

156654. We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run. – Al Stewart

156655. The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming. – Al Stewart

156656. Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it. – Al Stewart

156657. Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually. – Al Stewart

156658. Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. – Al Stewart

156659. Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal. – Al Stewart

156660. Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me. – Al Stewart

156661. Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall. – Al Stewart

156662. You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back. – Alexander Turney Stewart

156663. You must be wise, but not too wise. – Alexander Turney Stewart

156664. There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today. – Jackie Stewart

156665. We have had more sales for this year’s grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well. – Jackie Stewart

156666. I’m not going away. I’ll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so. – Jackie Stewart

156667. There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world. – Jackie Stewart

156668. The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings. – Jackie Stewart

156669. We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous. – Jackie Stewart

156670. When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I’m surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory. – Jackie Stewart

156671. Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax. – Jackie Stewart

156672. From today I am no longer a racing driver. I’m retired and I am very happy. – Jackie Stewart

156673. It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins. – Jackie Stewart

156674. In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air. – Jackie Stewart

156675. I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular. – Jackie Stewart

156676. We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine. – James Stewart

156677. I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets. – James Stewart

156678. One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses. – James Stewart

156679. If I had my career over again? Maybe I’d say to myself, speed it up a little. – James Stewart

156680. I’d like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time. – James Stewart

156681. I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I’d done theatricals in college, but I’d done them because it was fun. – James Stewart

156682. I sort of got into Westerns… It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn’t go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else. – James Stewart

156683. It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world… A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit… But it caught on, especially with young people – they surprised me most of all. – James Stewart

156684. I always watch Dean Martin’s show… just to see if he falls down. – James Stewart

156685. When it came to kissing, Harlow was the best. – James Stewart

156686. Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show. – James Stewart

156687. I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, ‘Who’s that?’ But this got me started in acting. – James Stewart

156688. Frank called me one day and said, ‘I have an idea for a movie, why don’t you come over and I’ll tell you?’ So I went over and we sat down and he said, ‘This picture starts in heaven’. That shook me. – James Stewart

156689. I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people’s appetites. – James Stewart

156690. It is hypocritical that Republicans can call any President “polarizing” after what Bush and the Republican Party did during his 8 years in office. – Jeffrey C. Stewart

156691. Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners. – Jimmy Stewart

156692. It’s well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show. – Jimmy Stewart

156693. I’ve wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I’m happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it. – Jimmy Stewart

156694. If the evens of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it’s that the terrorists can attack us, but they can’t take away what makes us American – our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that. – Jon Stewart

156695. I’ve been to Canada, and I’ve always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days. – Jon Stewart

156696. The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they’re going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him. – Jon Stewart

156697. The seven marvels that best represent man’s achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote… so look for Howard Stern’s Private Parts to come in No. 1. – Jon Stewart

156698. President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader. – Jon Stewart

156699. More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn’t even know they had. – Jon Stewart

156700. McVeigh’s lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done. – Jon Stewart

156701. Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is. – Jon Stewart

156702. Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. – Jon Stewart

156703. I’ve always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food. – Jon Stewart

156704. You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things. – Jon Stewart

156705. Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid. – Jon Stewart

156706. I’m too short to host a late-night talk show. It’s like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over. – Jon Stewart

156707. I’m not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else. – Jon Stewart

156708. I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a ‘Peanuts’ character. – Jon Stewart

156709. I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, ‘When I’m president… and I just wanted to stop him and say, ‘Dude.’ – Jon Stewart

156710. I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. – Jon Stewart

156711. I can be in 20 movies. But I’ll never be an actor. – Jon Stewart

156712. Here’s the point – you’re looking at affirmative action, and you’re looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who’s gonna wanna work? – Jon Stewart

156713. If you watch the news and don’t like it, then this is your counter program to the news. – Jon Stewart

156714. There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy’s heart stops, and you’re the one who has to fix it! – Jon Stewart

156715. Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain. – Jon Stewart

156716. There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on “Friends” is. – Jon Stewart

156717. We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There’s just one problem – it’s in North Korea. – Jon Stewart

156718. I like being in movies that have a great story. I’m not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It’s a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work. – Kristen Stewart

156719. When I dress up, I have to have a lot of help. I was in a T-shirt until a few minutes ago. – Kristen Stewart

156720. What you don’t see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction. – Kristen Stewart

156721. There’s no way to eloquently put this. I just can’t go to the mall. It bothers me that I can’t be outside very often. And also to not ever be just ‘some girl’ again. Just being some chick at some place, that’s gone. – Kristen Stewart

156722. Sure, ‘Twilight’ is really huge right now and everybody’s freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I’m used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees. – Kristen Stewart

156723. People say, ‘Just say who you’re dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.’ It’s like, No they won’t! They’ll ask for specifics. – Kristen Stewart

156724. It’s impossible to always get across what I’m trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I’m not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be. – Kristen Stewart

156725. I’m asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn’t say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don’t know myself at all yet. – Kristen Stewart

156726. I wouldn’t tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody. – Kristen Stewart

156727. I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them. – Kristen Stewart

156728. I want to go to college. I’m going to take four years off. I don’t want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that’d be awesome. – Kristen Stewart

156729. I never expected that this would be my life. – Kristen Stewart

156730. I just want the fans of the book to be happy. I don’t necessarily care about anyone else. – Kristen Stewart

156731. I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn’t want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn’t have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It’s funny because I’d always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn’t think that I would be in the movies. – Kristen Stewart

156732. I go outside, and I’m wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, ‘What’s wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.’ – Kristen Stewart

156733. I don’t want to make movies for kids, and I don’t want to make movies for adults either. – Kristen Stewart

156734. I don’t think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, ‘I’d like to star in the play.’ – Kristen Stewart

156735. Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me. – Kristen Stewart

156736. Anytime I hear that somebody’s really rich, the first question is, ‘Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?’ – Kristen Stewart

156737. I’m really proud of Twilight. I think it’s a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don’t take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there’s literally like a thousand girls and they’re all screaming your name, you’re like, why? You don’t feel like you deserve it. – Kristen Stewart

156738. I think romance is anything honest. As long as it’s honest, it’s so disarming. – Kristen Stewart

156739. Masses of girls identified with Bella in a really profound way, for want of a better word. The connection that I’ve seen people have – I’ve seen it physically. It’s the characters they’re flipping for. – Kristen Stewart

156740. I’m not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas. – Martha Stewart

156741. I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken. – Martha Stewart

156742. I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it’s not a waste of time. – Martha Stewart

156743. I don’t even like firing people. I don’t think I’ve ever said, ‘You’re fired’ to anybody. – Martha Stewart

156744. I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I’m well balanced today. – Martha Stewart

156745. I invented ‘It’s a good thing’ before you were even born. – Martha Stewart

156746. I think it’s very important that whatever you’re trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won’t be here in ten years. – Martha Stewart

156747. All the things I love is what my business is all about. – Martha Stewart

156748. I was married for 30 years. Isn’t that enough? I’ve had my share of dirty underwear on the floor. – Martha Stewart

156749. My new motto is: When you’re through changing, you’re through. – Martha Stewart

156750. Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success. – Martha Stewart

156751. I want you to know that I am innocent – and that I will fight to clear my name. – Martha Stewart

156752. I can say ‘reduce your stress level’ until I’m blue in the face. – Mary Stewart

156753. I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark. – Mary Stewart

156754. The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know. – Mary Stewart

156755. The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law. – Mary Stewart

156756. There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death. – Mary Stewart

156757. It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. – Mary Stewart

156758. The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart! – Patrick Stewart

156759. I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that’s why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher. – Patrick Stewart

156760. You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven’t actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It’s not a quality that attracts me. – Patrick Stewart

156761. Wouldn’t it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country? – Patrick Stewart

156762. William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We’re very good friends. I adore him, but we’re very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that. – Patrick Stewart

156763. Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain’s ready room died it was always a sad moment. – Patrick Stewart

156764. We’ve heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students. – Patrick Stewart

156765. We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan. – Patrick Stewart

156766. There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation. – Patrick Stewart

156767. The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they’re renegotiating contracts. – Patrick Stewart

156768. The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced. – Patrick Stewart

156769. The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me. – Patrick Stewart

156770. Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things – I found that very interesting. – Patrick Stewart

156771. One of the things that I’ve come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I’m talking about myself. – Patrick Stewart

156772. One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain’s chair of the Enterprise. – Patrick Stewart

156773. I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was – because I had graphic instances of it – handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, ‘I don’t want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie’ – and this was compounded by X-Men as well. – Patrick Stewart

156774. Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes. – Patrick Stewart

156775. I don’t do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you! – Patrick Stewart

156776. Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control. – Patrick Stewart

156777. I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me. – Patrick Stewart

156778. I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went. – Patrick Stewart

156779. I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid. – Patrick Stewart

156780. I wasn’t campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you’ve got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time. – Patrick Stewart

156781. I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited. – Patrick Stewart

156782. I wouldn’t know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me. – Patrick Stewart

156783. I’ve met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it’s just not worth working with them. – Patrick Stewart

156784. I’ve met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it’s not worth working with them! – Patrick Stewart

156785. I’ve often reflected on this in the past weeks as I’ve been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek. – Patrick Stewart

156786. It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else… begin to march us steadily backward. – Patrick Stewart

156787. It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else. – Patrick Stewart

156788. It wasn’t until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there. – Patrick Stewart

156789. Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too. – Patrick Stewart

156790. I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It’s absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas. – Patrick Stewart

156791. I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure. – Patrick Stewart

156792. I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well. – Patrick Stewart

156793. I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek. – Patrick Stewart

156794. I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair. – Patrick Stewart

156795. Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend – someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine. – Patrick Stewart

156796. Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It’s been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I’m talking about. But I’m still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car. – Patrick Stewart

156797. For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time. – Patrick Stewart

156798. Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It’s one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn’t want our make-believe to be exposed. – Patrick Stewart

156799. During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain’s chair. – Patrick Stewart

156800. But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. – Patrick Stewart

156801. As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering. – Patrick Stewart

156802. As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn’t interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around. – Patrick Stewart

156803. During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that’s all. It was part of our job. – Patrick Stewart

156804. We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I’ve been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I’ve seen things you only read about and see on the news. – Payne Stewart

156805. Not that money is a driving force. It’s an honor to play for your country. – Payne Stewart

156806. People who have never had an addiction don’t understand how hard it can be. – Payne Stewart

156807. Raymond Floyd. The man knows how to control situations. He was experienced. He didn’t let me get overly excited; he kept me in check. It allowed me to free myself up, and I played really well with him. – Payne Stewart

156808. That’s why I’m very proud of being American. I’m proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative. – Payne Stewart

156809. The cast clubs were a big part of it, too. I found I wasn’t getting that instant feedback I was used to with a forged blade. The sweet spot is a shade bigger, and when I didn’t hit the ball dead center, I didn’t know it, because it still felt great. – Payne Stewart

156810. The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long. – Payne Stewart

156811. Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I’m trying my best to do that. – Payne Stewart

156812. These guys who keep on playing but aren’t winning, you’ve got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves. – Payne Stewart

156813. This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don’t have that mentality. – Payne Stewart

156814. Yes, I’m a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things… I say, don’t live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it. – Payne Stewart

156815. We grew up with so much love in our family. – Payne Stewart

156816. Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that’s out of control. It always seems to happen. But they’ve gotten better about the height of the rough. – Payne Stewart

156817. With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve. – Payne Stewart

156818. I don’t think it’s healthy to take yourself too seriously. – Payne Stewart

156819. Tiger is the greatest thing that’s happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I’ve heard about him seems to be true. – Payne Stewart

156820. I didn’t hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that’s how I tried to raise my children. We’re physical. – Payne Stewart

156821. I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I’ve talked to Tom about it. I don’t think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain’s cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes. – Payne Stewart

156822. If you can’t laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that. – Payne Stewart

156823. But in the end it’s still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can’t shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you’ve missed the point. – Payne Stewart

156824. For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn’t want to practice. – Payne Stewart

156825. For example, I wouldn’t hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn’t performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I’ve been sat down before. – Payne Stewart

156826. For sure I would be a very emotional captain. A very hands-on captain. – Payne Stewart

156827. I don’t read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books. – Payne Stewart

156828. I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It’s quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps. – Payne Stewart

156829. But I’ll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we’re all susceptible to becoming alcoholics. – Payne Stewart

156830. I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain’s pick. I made the effort to go over there. – Payne Stewart

156831. I’m 42 now, what I would consider prime time. – Payne Stewart

156832. I’ve just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges. – Payne Stewart

156833. If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it’s what they want to hear or not. – Payne Stewart

156834. For one thing, when you’re playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn’t true, of course, but I didn’t know it then. – Payne Stewart

156835. To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. – Potter Stewart

156836. A person’s mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person. – Potter Stewart

156837. It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures. – Potter Stewart

156838. The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. – Potter Stewart

156839. The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. – Potter Stewart

156840. Swift justice demands more than just swiftness. – Potter Stewart

156841. In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property. – Potter Stewart

156842. I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it. – Potter Stewart

156843. Fairness is what justice really is. – Potter Stewart

156844. Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. – Potter Stewart

156845. Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. – Potter Stewart

156846. Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. – Potter Stewart

156847. I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you’re at the top, it’s so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers. – Rod Stewart

156848. I’ve never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I’d get married in a minute if I weren’t still married to somebody else. – Rod Stewart

156849. What I do now is all my dad’s fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. – Rod Stewart

156850. The first cut is the deepest. – Rod Stewart

156851. Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines. – Rod Stewart

156852. Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and just give her a house. – Rod Stewart

156853. I wish I knew what I know now before. – Rod Stewart

156854. A show is like having a climax. It’s like having an incredible, natural climax. And then suddenly it’s all finished, and you don’t know what to do next. – Rod Stewart

156855. I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly. – Rod Stewart

156856. How can my son not be straight after all I’ve said and done for him? – Rod Stewart

156857. Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It’s the image, not what you sing. – Rod Stewart

156858. I’m a rock star because I couldn’t be a soccer star. – Rod Stewart

156859. Internal marketing is probably much more important than external marketing. That’s even more true today than it’s ever been. – Tom Stewart

156860. It’s easy for women to say they don’t understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys. – Tom Stewart

156861. Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don’t have freedom to do anything anymore. – Tony Stewart

156862. When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters. – Tony Stewart

156863. The essence of a government health care system – for people who have never lived under it and don’t know – is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America. – Mark Steyn

156864. The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it’s a permanent feature of life and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. – Mark Steyn

156865. We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who’s lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue. – Mark Steyn

156866. Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it’s an assault on citizenship. – Mark Steyn

156867. First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. – Gustav Stickley

156868. The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods. – Gustav Stickley

156869. There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. – Gustav Stickley

156870. The goal of art was the vital expression of self. – Alfred Stieglitz

156871. Wherever there is light, one can photograph. – Alfred Stieglitz

156872. I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. – Alfred Stieglitz

156873. The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art. – Alfred Stieglitz

156874. In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. – Alfred Stieglitz

156875. We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information. – David Ogden Stiers

156876. It’s really important to stay engaged and involved in the character. – David Ogden Stiers

156877. My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question. – David Ogden Stiers

156878. Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them. – David Ogden Stiers

156879. Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn’t occur when we’re on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players. – David Ogden Stiers

156880. There are a couple of roles I haven’t played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh. – David Ogden Stiers

156881. Very often, I don’t make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises. – David Ogden Stiers

156882. What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give. – David Ogden Stiers

156883. When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it’s not easy. – David Ogden Stiers

156884. Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people’s attention and holding it are very difficult. – David Ogden Stiers

156885. You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you. – David Ogden Stiers

156886. It’s rare to be treated like a friend you haven’t met in a Hollywood meeting. – David Ogden Stiers

156887. Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I’m put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better. – David Ogden Stiers

156888. Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. – David Ogden Stiers

156889. People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried. – David Ogden Stiers

156890. In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot. – David Ogden Stiers

156891. A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network. – David Ogden Stiers

156892. Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I’m never going to change that film. – David Ogden Stiers

156893. High school music teachers… nobody makes a living off it. – David Ogden Stiers

156894. I am certainly not a mainstream religious man. – David Ogden Stiers

156895. I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that. – David Ogden Stiers

156896. I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned. – David Ogden Stiers

156897. I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me. – David Ogden Stiers

156898. If it’s right and true, it’s listened to and accommodated. – David Ogden Stiers

156899. I’d forgotten I’d done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film. – David Ogden Stiers

156900. I’ve played Lear three times, I would love to do it again. – David Ogden Stiers

156901. I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years. – David Ogden Stiers

156902. Because I don’t take money, I’ll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra. – David Ogden Stiers

156903. The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist. – George Stigler

156904. My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director. – George Stigler

156905. My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938. – George Stigler

156906. My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman. – George Stigler

156907. The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930’s were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly. – George Stigler

156908. Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University. – George Stigler

156909. It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation. – George Stigler

156910. I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970. – George Stigler

156911. That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent. – George Stigler

156912. I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938. – George Stigler

156913. I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University. – George Stigler

156914. Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price. – George Stigler

156915. And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists. – George Stigler

156916. After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958. – George Stigler

156917. A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. – George Stigler

156918. In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics. – George Stigler

156919. In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained. – George Stigler

156920. Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156921. I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156922. If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future – and these markets clearly did not exist – what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system? – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156923. In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue – it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156924. Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156925. My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution of income affected growth. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156926. My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156927. The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged – debating – helped shape my interests in public policy. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156928. There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156929. I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated – a cross section of children from families of all walks of life. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156930. The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156931. I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156932. I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one’s own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156933. I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156934. Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156935. I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156936. I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156937. Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156938. But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156939. But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156940. As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability – the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156941. Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist. – Joseph E. Stiglitz

156942. International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn’t go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief. – Joseph Stiglitz

156943. Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently. – Joseph Stiglitz

156944. Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten. – Ezra Stiles

156945. Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents. – Ezra Stiles

156946. With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power. – Ezra Stiles

156947. We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. – Ezra Stiles

156948. War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven. – Ezra Stiles

156949. There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America. – Ezra Stiles

156950. The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right. – Ezra Stiles

156951. The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made. – Ezra Stiles

156952. The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people. – Ezra Stiles

156953. The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom. – Ezra Stiles

156954. Our trade opens to all the world. – Ezra Stiles

156955. But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years. – Ezra Stiles

156956. It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest. – Ezra Stiles

156957. A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. – Ezra Stiles

156958. All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. – Ezra Stiles

156959. The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade. – Ezra Stiles

156960. But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. – Ezra Stiles

156961. But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. – Ezra Stiles

156962. In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom. – Ezra Stiles

156963. Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere. – Ezra Stiles

156964. It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled. – Ezra Stiles

156965. A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia. – Ezra Stiles

156966. Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right. – Ezra Stiles

156967. I’m very excited to be chosen by Portland. It’s definitely a dream come true to be playing in the WNBA. – Jackie Stiles

156968. I always feel like a goofy little kid. – Julia Stiles

156969. I’m going to Columbia University but I’m trying to keep that low-profile because I don’t want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life. – Julia Stiles

156970. I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces. – Julia Stiles

156971. I like analyzing human behavior. It’s complex. That’s what keeps me going. – Julia Stiles

156972. It’s actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I love, then just when I think my head might explode, I get to go to school where they don’t really care about what magazine cover I’m on. – Julia Stiles

156973. I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don’t do anything that outlandish anyway. – Julia Stiles

156974. If I were like your mother, I would be a woman. – Ryan Stiles

156975. You know, I’ve got a confession to make myself. I’m not really a priest, I’ve just got my shirt on backwards. – Ryan Stiles

156976. When it comes to making love, I may not be the best, but I’m damn gouda. – Ryan Stiles

156977. What do I do when we’re not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess. – Ryan Stiles

156978. The sky, the sky beyond the door is blue. – Ryan Stiles

156979. The first rule to living in America is ‘Stop tap dancing, you fool!’. – Ryan Stiles

156980. That is raw dough. Never eat raw dough. They can make worms in your tummy. Worms in your tummy. – Ryan Stiles

156981. Never trust sheep. – Ryan Stiles

156982. Never interrupt me when I’m eating a banana. – Ryan Stiles

156983. I look like Walt Disney just threw up. – Ryan Stiles

156984. If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me. – Ryan Stiles

156985. I can’t sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I’m shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982. – Ryan Stiles

156986. I’d rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn’t happen to know of a rental car place around. – Ryan Stiles

156987. I’m going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they’ll be ripe. – Ryan Stiles

156988. I’m Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I’m also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States. – Ryan Stiles

156989. If I could rap, that would be a sensation, but I can’t, you see, I’m just a Caucasian. – Ryan Stiles

156990. If I were a man with gills, I would be a fish! – Ryan Stiles

156991. If I were as much of a man as my woman, I’d be my wife. – Ryan Stiles

156992. Back off or the lizard gets it! – Ryan Stiles

156993. I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die. – Andrew Taylor Still

156994. I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance. – Andrew Taylor Still

156995. My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough. – Andrew Taylor Still

156996. Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good. – Andrew Taylor Still

156997. You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side. – Andrew Taylor Still

156998. How can we live and die and never know the difference? – Clyfford Still

156999. A great free joy surges through me when I work… with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes. – Clyfford Still

157000. The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from. – John Still