Dr Stein Quotes

#1. Paradise of Lailah Gifty Akita is reading, wondering and writing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. History's just one darn thing after another.

Henry Ford

#3. He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. The first time I saw hundreds of fiddlehead ferns boiling in an enormous pot I realized what an odd person I must be to hear tiny cries from the mouths of cooking vegetables.

Maureen Seaton

#5. When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

Ben Stein

#6. Accomplishment is one part commitment, one part ability, one part persistence, and one part circumstance. Circumstance we cannot control. The rest we might.

Dee Hock

#7. I became friends on a social basis with a music professor (Dr. Alan Stein) who took a real interest in my work.He encouraged me in countless different ways, urged me to try different arranging styles, etc.

John Keltonic

#8. It was to him a very strange and perplexing place, where people wore fine clothes and had hard hearts.

Willa Cather

#9. The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is ... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.

Thorstein Veblen