George Stout Quotes

#1. George Stout saw through their acts. "I am sick of all schemers," he wrote, "of all the vain crawling toads who now edge into positions of advantage and look for selfish gain or selfish glory from all this suffering."13

Robert M. Edsel

#2. It was typical George Stout: detailed, timely, and understated. Here was a man that was never hurried. Who was careful. Punctual. Precise. An expert and a precisionist makes his analysis first, he always said, then his decision.

Robert M. Edsel

#3. We are the world, we are the children ...

Michael Jackson

#4. Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.

Gale Norton

#5. Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

George Orwell

#6. Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Rick Perlstein

#7. but my idea of myself and my parents' idea of me no longer belong in the same place.

Margaret Atwood

#8. It was curious how that beetlelike type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes. It was the type that seemed to flourish best under the dominion of the Party.

George Orwell

#9. Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

Louis De Bernieres

#10. I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

Mae West

#11. When two people really care about each other, they will always look for a way to make it work, no matter how hard it is.

Bharat

#12. When you own your choices, you own their consequences.

Jack Welch

#13. It costs your life," says Caesar. "Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are." "Everything you are," repeats Caesar quietly. A

Suzanne Collins

#14. The young woman went to rummage in a sideboard and came back to the table with a stout cook's knife. But instead of using it to cut the fruit, she showed the point to each of the men in a meaningful way, then tucked the blade into her kirtle. They

George R R Martin

#15. Really he was not an interesting man: short, broad, stout, red-faced, with an immense amount of mental inertia, discharging itself in constant lingual activity about little nothings.

George MacDonald

#16. For me photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in my mind. I get inspired by things around me in my daily life and all kinds of things I see. Every new project is a new challenge and my goal is to realize them as realistic as possible.

Erik Johansson