Top 100 Quotes About Stein
#1. It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.
Sara Bonnett Stein
#2. Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
Gertrude Stein
#3. I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Gertrude Stein
#4. This tape is supposed to be about love, and I guess the distortions of love. The Love Tape. Do you have any questions you want to ask me?
Jean Stein
#5. Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
#7. (C)hoice without alternative is only a sleight of hand; it is a magician's force-play, during which you believe you have free well, but your fate has already been decided: the magician knows which card you will pick!
Garth Stein
#8. I believe that people were not so allergic to their environment until they began polluting themselves and their world with so many drugs and toxins.
Garth Stein
#9. He suggested devils, skulls, harsh masculine drawings. This thing was ... heart poundingly good. She wanted to pluck it, and bury her face in it, and keep it in a vase by her bedside.
Charlotte Stein
#10. If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
Gertrude Stein
#11. She loved him for doing things like calling her such a goof. He said it with such warmth and affection, as though her being silly meant something good, instead of how her other boyfriends had felt about it - that being goofy or silly made her a scattered flake who didn't fit into their career plans.
Charlotte Stein
#12. I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous.
Joel Stein
#13. He had lovely eyes, really - not assessing, at all, but big and dark and ... waiting.
Charlotte Stein
#14. Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.
Gertrude Stein
#15. Dear God, she couldn't give this man sex. She could barely give it to Van, and he currently smelled so good she just wanted to shove her face under his t-shirt and eat whatever she found there.
Charlotte Stein
#16. In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.
Sol Stein
#17. You really don't get how amazing you are, do you? Well let me make it really clear for you - so amazing that I would risk everything, just to let you know. Just to tell you I love you, Sergei. I love you. I love you more than my life
Charlotte Stein
#18. Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
Gertrude Stein
#19. His pictures of this region summarize the soulful emptiness of a country where, as Gertrude Stein observed, 'there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is.
Sarah Vowell
#20. Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students.
Jill Stein
#22. When I said.
A rose is a rose is a rose.
And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what
did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed
a noun.
Gertrude Stein
#23. She went at him like a nun briskly rubbing a pair of underpants against a washboard, full of pure vim and gusto. But no matter how sexless she tried to be, sex kept slipping in there anyway.
Charlotte Stein
#24. It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
#25. A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
Gertrude Stein
#26. When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.
Joel Stein
#27. Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
Ben Stein
#28. She would have punched him, if she'd had a magical punch-erasing time machine about her person.
Charlotte Stein
#29. For almost 50 years polls have shown that a large majority of the public believe that the budget should be balanced, and for all that time they have elected office seekers who would not balance it. The public cares about deficits, but doesn't care much.
Herbert Stein
#30. I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich.
Gertrude Stein
#31. Your car goes where your eyes go.
Lonliness is unable to survive without a willing host.
Garth Stein
#32. Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup
Gertrude Stein
#33. Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Gertrude Stein
#34. Certainly, men have been availing themselves of the services of prostitutes from the moment those early hominids stood upright and certain women could say, "Hey there, sailor"; it's not called the world's oldest profession for nothing.
Elissa Stein
#35. This is something I'd heard him say before: getting angry at another driver for a driving incident is pointless. You need to watch the drivers around you, understand their skill, confidence, and aggression levels, and drive with them accordingly.
Garth Stein
#36. Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
Gertrude Stein
#37. It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.
Joel Stein
#38. And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
Gertrude Stein
#39. Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.
Gertrude Stein
#40. In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
Edith Stein
#42. I realized, then, that being an adult was just about bullshitting everyone around you. Just do things until someone stops you from doing those things, and then say, "Oh, that isn't allowed?
Garth Stein
#43. She'd never really touched their faces before, but that didn't mean anything. She touched other parts of them all the time. Or at least, they touched things on her and she tried to pretend it wasn't happening in case she accidentally slipped and fell tongue first into their mouths.
Charlotte Stein
#44. When a friend introduced me to a Bach chaconne, he started by describing it by saying that it has 256 measures (256=2^8) divided into 4 sections of 64 measures (64=2^6), and I liked it even before I heard a single note.
James Stein
#46. He's fucking stone cold deadpan. His pan is so dead he could lay it in a casket and bury it at Bellevue. They made a movie about him once: Dawn of Ivan's Pan.
Charlotte Stein
#49. I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
Ben Stein
#50. A writer writes what other people only think.
Sol Stein
#51. I think I realized that Dave Barry was funnier than I'll ever be, and he made no attempt to make any actual points. He had a general libertarian point of view, but in general, he just liked to make jokes.
Joel Stein
#53. People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.
Joel Stein
#55. What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein
#56. Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
Ben Stein
#58. A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.
Gertrude Stein
#59. The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.
Gertrude Stein
#60. I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Gertrude Stein
#62. However things might change around us, we would always be together.
Garth Stein
#63. The traditional Sanskrit learning has given to Brahaman community of Kashmir, small as it has been always, a distinguished place in the history of Sanskrit literature since early times.
Aurel Stein
#64. Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
Gertrude Stein
#65. I didn't want to admit that I still slept with a stuffed animal. But I did. I loved that dog.
Garth Stein
#66. My longing for truth was a single prayer.
Edith Stein
#67. Apart from the obvious psychological problems, he's the perfect man.
Charlotte Stein
#70. When I get real big volumes of hate mail, it's usually because I wrote something poorly. But it's also because some group told people to e-mail me and those people didn't read the article, they read the post about what I wrote about. And they all e-mail me. And they all come around at the same time.
Joel Stein
#71. It's a lot better to hope than not to.
Ben Stein
#73. Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
Gertrude Stein
#75. Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don't pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
Ben Stein
#76. I have talent at playing myself. I don't have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It's more than fun; it's the best job on Earth.
Ben Stein
#78. The single characteristic that most makes a difference in the success of an article or nonfiction book is the author's courage in revealing normally unspoken things about himself or his society. It takes guts to be a writer
Sol Stein
#79. You know it feels good. I can hardly geta ... I don't even ...
There was something amusing about watching him trying to form a coherent sen-tence. Amusing, but arousing at the sametime.
Charlotte Stein
#80. With a Q&A, you need obviously to keep it snappy.
Joel Stein
#82. The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box.
Jock Stein
#83. You are a strange people. So loving, yet so lonely, inside. I would lie awake at night and gaze up at the dark blue sky, and ache to feel your loneliness - even though I was always there. I was always there, Mae.
Charlotte Stein
#85. Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you're reacting at speed, you're reacting too late. And so you should be afraid.
Garth Stein
#86. Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Gertrude Stein
#87. I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
Gertrude Stein
#88. We're a lazy, undisciplined generation. I don't exempt myself: I spend way too much, even though I make a good income.
Ben Stein
#89. In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.
Gertrude Stein
#90. If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
Herbert Stein
#91. I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
Harold E. Varmus
#92. So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.
Ben Stein
#93. One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
Gertrude Stein
#94. I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
Ben Stein
#95. Science leads you to killing people.
Ben Stein
#96. Suppose no one asked a question.
What would the answer be?
Gertrude Stein
#97. I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
Ben Stein
#98. I don't think much about the issues after they come out. I like it when people like them. Often, when people have criticisms, I find myself agreeing with them. I think some issues are stronger than others. I hope we're getting a little bit better, overall, issue by issue.
Lorin Stein
#99. Let me tell you this: The Weather Channel is not about weather; it is about the world!
Garth Stein
#100. The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Gertrude Stein
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