Top 26 Guirgis Stephen Quotes

#1. I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#2. A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.

Horace Binney Wallace

#3. Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.

Benjamin Hoff

#4. When I was a kid and I'd be in trouble. I'd ask God to help me, and then once the fire was out, I wouldn't talk to Him anymore. When I got older, I began to find I needed some help spiritually, just to function.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#5. The good thing is that life is sometimes a work in progress.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#6. The American people have a right to know the air they breathe is safe.

Sheldon Whitehouse

#7. September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#8. JACKIE. I swear to God: Being in love with Veronica - it's like feeding your love to Godzilla every morning, and every morning you go "Yo, 'Zilla, these shits are very delicate so please chew softly", - and every morning - the motherfucker just goes crunch!

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#9. It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching.

Octavia E. Butler

#10. One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#11. I don't want to disappoint you. I don't want to let you down. And I don't want to embarrass you in front of the people you love.

Maya Banks

#12. I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#13. A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.

Paul Gardner

#14. I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#15. I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among many non-fiction writers that the narrative is terribly important.

Robert Caro

#16. Good luck, Mr. Gorsky

Neil Armstrong

#17. In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

Andre Gide

#18. I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

Mike Mills

#19. Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.

Wyndham Lewis

#20. I was raised a Catholic, so I can even feel a little, you know, embarrassed or guilty if I'm really offending people's sensibilities. To a degree.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#21. God is fucking stealing souls again!

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#22. Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights.

Gloria Allred

#23. The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.

Bion Of Borysthenes

#24. Nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.

Alexander Hamilton

#25. I've lived with women, loved women, lost women. They've loved me, lost me, whatever.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#26. We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that it brings to those horizons the powerful antidote of God's truth. It is not the Word of God but rather modernity that stands in need of being demythologised.

David F. Wells

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