Rothstein Quotes

#1. someone like him, is the island of exile where most teenagers go to wait until childhood becomes adulthood. What you need to see - what Rothstein finally saw, although it took him three books to do it - is that most of us become everyone.

Stephen King

#2. Morris's face is melting. He shrieks and begins hugging the blazing, dissolving remnants of Rothstein's work to his burning chest.

Stephen King

#3. Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none ... so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all,

Arnold Rothstein

#4. Musical myths speak with authority about our society, its fragility, its strengths, its desires, and its limits. Music becomes a wise version of the utopian messenger, pleasing us with his account of an ideal land but also warning us, in his tones, of all the dangers.

Edward Rothstein

#5. The more money the louder it talks.

Arnold Rothstein

#6. So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

Jeremy Taylor

#7. We have three ways to act wisely. First by thinking. That's the noblest. Second by imitating. That's the easiest. And third by experience. This is the bitterest.

Anonymous

#8. Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.

Larry Niven

#9. Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

Dean Inge

#10. A photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully as the lighting, exposure and composition of the photograph.

Arthur Rothstein

#11. The rigorous process of learning to develop and ask questions offers students the invaluable opportunity to become independent thinkers and self-directed learners.

Dan Rothstein

#12. She hates me and you hate me, but you all love Harry. Nobody loves me.

Arnold Rothstein

#13. Everybody makes his path differently.

Emanuel Ax

#14. Creation takes place through words, a series of 'And God Saids' bringing each new stage of life into being. Language is God's divine power made manifest in the world.

Myla Goldberg

#15. It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths ... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.

Arthur Rothstein

#16. Flip a coin. When it's in the air, you'll know which side you're hoping for.

Arnold Rothstein

#17. Today's residential segregation in the North, South, Midwest, and West is not the unintended consequence of individual choices and of otherwise well-meaning law or regulation but of unhidden public policy that explicitly segregated every metropolitan area in the United States.

Richard Rothstein

#18. As long as they're willing to pay to prove it, I'm willing to let them.

Arnold Rothstein

#19. He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.

George Herbert

#20. Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

Arthur Rothstein

#21. It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.

Arthur Rothstein

#22. Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

Arnold Rothstein

#23. I photographed Arthur Coble and his sons Milton and Darrel as they did chores, but the vicious winds made it difficult to see and breathe.

Arthur Rothstein

#24. In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible to the spectator.

Arthur Rothstein

#25. It is said that in a foreign country impressions are sharp and accurate for a month, and then they become blurred, and the reactions are not accurate again for five years, so that one should stay either one month or five years in a country.

John Steinbeck

#26. I prefer to make my living honestly.

Arnold Rothstein

#27. The gabled eaves, with Legolandish civic pride, the church clock chimes nine golden times; an Alp rears up on every side;

David Mitchell

#28. There is no objective and universally acceptable definition of good and evil. And until we have one, we will go on justifying our own actions, while condemning the actions of the others.

Gregory David Roberts

#29. Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.

Arnold Rothstein

#30. There's only so much you can teach a person until you reach the limits of his capabilities.

Arnold Rothstein

#31. The purpose of American culture is to create a norm, Morris. That means extraordinary people must be leveled, and it happens to Jimmy. He ends up working in advertising, for God's sake, and what greater agent of the norm is there in this fucked - up country?

Stephen King

#32. Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.

Arnold Rothstein

#33. A picture story is a sequence of images combined with text in such a way that pictures and words reinforce each other.
They produce a planned, organized combination giving detailed account of an event, personality or aspect of life.

Arthur Rothstein

#34. Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him.

Arnold Rothstein

#35. If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

Arnold Rothstein

#36. A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.

Laurence J. Peter

#37. Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will.

Arnold Rothstein

#38. There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

Clive Bell

#39. What's wrong? Cam asked. Everything, she wanted to say. The only thing Lilith had ever known was disappointment. Nothing in her life ever worked out. Which, for the most part, was okay, because she never let herself expect anything, so she never really cared.

Lauren Kate

#40. Predator is not property," Grimm said in a calm, level tone. "She is not my possession. She is my home. Her crew are not my employees. They are my family. And if you threaten to take my home and destroy the livelihood of my family again, Commodore, I will be inclined to kill you where you stand.

Jim Butcher