Top 100 Quotes About Stein
#1. 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
#3. 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
#4. I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein - it's down to him that I cook fish so much - and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal.
Charles Hazlewood
#5. I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.
Robert Moses
#6. When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.
Rick Moody
#7. [Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.
James Laughlin
#8. Nowhere and oblivion were completely different things/places to Richard Stein. For
him, oblivion is when something goes into nothing and nowhere is the place where
something can come out of nothing.
Carlton Mellick III
#9. I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein.
Gertrude Stein
#10. In a notable family called Stein
There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein.
Gert's writing was hazy,
Ep's statues were crazy,
And nobody understood Ein.
Bennett Cerf
#11. I'd rather have head to head and right now they're not getting any numbers. She's [Jill Stein] doing better than he [Gary Johnson] is, but right now in some polls she's actually not doing badly.
Donald Trump
#12. She's vicious,' Miss Stein said. 'She's truly vicious, so she can never be happy except with new people. She corrupts people.
Ernest Hemingway,
#13. The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls
Diana Vreeland
#14. He [Jock Stein] phoned and asked me to come over and see him one night Hibs were playing at home to Aberdeen. You know Im coming as manager, he said, and I know youll be disappointed. But I want to reciprocate for you making me your deputy by asking you to become my assistant.
Sean Fallon
#15. You are all a lost generation, Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.
James Thurber
#16. There is nothing else to say, so I just murmur, "I know. Thank you for the chance." And I add, "Merry Christmas, Missus Stein."
"We call it Hanukkah, but thank you, Miss Phelan.
Kathryn Stockett
#17. For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.
Richard Hovey
#18. Stein lifted his hand. "And do you know how many opportunities I let escape; how many dreams I had lost that had come in my way?" He shook his head regretfully. "It seems to me that some would have been very fine - if I had made them come true. Do you know how many? Perhaps I myself don't know.
Joseph Conrad
#19. Our little ford was almost ready. She was later to be called Auntie after Gertrude Stein's aunt Pauline who always behaved admirably in emergencies and behaved fairly well most times if she was properly flattered.
Gertrude Stein
#20. He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
Anne Carson
#21. [On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great while yet, for it is in such a limited edition, and reading it is anyhow a sort of permanent occupation.
Katherine Anne Porter
#22. Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
Leslie Fiedler
#23. Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding ... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve.
Wyndham Lewis
#24. Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.
Jim Woodring
#25. She [Jill Stein] doesn't get media coverage only because people perceive her as hurting Hillary Clinton. I'm not sure that that's true.
Donald Trump
#26. Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.
Edward Hirsch
#27. ( ... )Take your time, because there
isn't a moment to spare,( ... ) That's what Stein told me when I had to leave Menak
for the first time. It kind of means that wherever your
destination is, now is the time to start working towards it,
or you will never get there.
Daniel "Z" Hastings
#28. There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. (Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures)
Gertrude Stein
#29. You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
Ernest Hemingway,
#30. One evening in one of those Over-the-Rhine cafes which were plentiful along Vine Street of the Cincinnati of the nineties, a traveling salesman leaned across his stein of Moerlein's Extra Light and openly accused Ray Schmidt of being innocent.
Fannie Hurst
#31. It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.' Stein on Writing
Sol Stein
#32. Ultimately, people write to be understood (excepting Gertrude Stein and Tristan Tzara, who were intentionally being difficult).
John Scalzi
#33. Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.
James Laughlin
#34. It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
Raymond Queneau
#35. People perceive her [Jill Stein ] as hurting [Hillary] Clinton. I think she's doing very well. I don't think the numbers will be good enough for them to be in the debate.
Donald Trump
#36. Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.
Clifton Fadiman
#37. Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful cadences and bleak, joyful wit are all his own.
Sam Lipsyte
#38. Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.
Dorothy Parker
#39. Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein's memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author's journey to reclaim - and celebrate - that most primal of relationships, the one between mother and child. I dare you to read this book without crying.
Mira Bartok
#40. 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
#41. Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to extract the radium of the word.
Mina Loy
#42. But when Mr. Stein sipped his hot coffee and watched Kat drink hers, he smiled the way he might if he saw a replica of his favorite childhood toy in a shop window - happy that something he loved wasn't entirely gone from the world.
Ally Carter
#43. As the longest serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress, as somebody who came into office by defeating an incumbent Democratic mayor in Burlington, Vermont, I know something about third party politics. And I respect Jill [Stein].
Bernie Sanders
#44. Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have done.
Edward Abbey
#45. Godiva was tired and old and Gertrude Stein in spring bought a new car ...
Alice B. Toklas
#46. Her full name is Eva Morelli Stein Hathaway. She retains her surnames not because they define her, but because she defines them; that is, except for the first--Morelli. Ironically it is the one she's least familiar with...
Maryann D'Agincourt
#47. I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein.
Morrissey
#48. ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.
Frederick Buechner
#50. After a while I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.
Gertrude Stein
#51. Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism.
Robert Barron
#52. Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an MFA in Poetry, and a year's worth of a PhD, Stein was an author I had to discover on my own. She wasn't on the syllabus anywhere in all that time.
Laura Mullen
#53. It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.
Sara Bonnett Stein
#54. Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
Gertrude Stein
#55. I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Gertrude Stein
#56. 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
#57. Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
#58. When is there some discharge when. There never is.
Gertrude Stein
#59. (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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
Gertrude Stein
#63. 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
#64. I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous.
Joel Stein
#65. He had lovely eyes, really - not assessing, at all, but big and dark and ... waiting.
Charlotte Stein
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
Gertrude Stein
#71. Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students.
Jill Stein
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
#76. A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
Gertrude Stein
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. She would have punched him, if she'd had a magical punch-erasing time machine about her person.
Charlotte Stein
#80. 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
#81. I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich.
Gertrude Stein
#82. Your car goes where your eyes go.
Lonliness is unable to survive without a willing host.
Garth Stein
#83. 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
#84. Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Gertrude Stein
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
Gertrude Stein
#88. It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.
Joel Stein
#89. 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
#90. Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.
Gertrude Stein
#91. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#97. 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
#100. 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
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