Top 100 St Gertrude Quotes
#1. The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Gertrude Stein
#2. If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.
Gertrude Stein
#3. A FEATHER.
A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
Gertrude Stein
#5. That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.
Gertrude B. Elion
#6. Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.
Gertrude Stein
#7. Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
Gertrude Stein
#8. Superstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will mean a particular thing is coming. Oh yes it does.
Gertrude Stein
#10. Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
Gertrude Stein
#11. Some one who was living was almost always listening. Some one who was loving was almost always listening.
Gertrude Stein
#12. A light white, a disgras, an ink spot, a rosy charm.
Gertrude Stein
#13. If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.
Gertrude Stein
#14. At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you are you, you are not for the purposes of creating you.
Gertrude Stein
#15. Suppose no one asked a question.
What would the answer be?
Gertrude Stein
#16. One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
Gertrude Stein
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Gertrude Stein
#21. On they went, past the hen houses. These were all mended and painted. They went through a field to the street. It was very strange
Gertrude Chandler Warner
#23. This is what I like," said Jesse. "Everything seems better when we have to work to get it.
Gertrude Chandler Warner
#26. There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
Gertrude Atherton
#27. In the fifteen or so years he has known her, A.J. thinks Ismay has aged like an actress should: from Juliet to Ophelia to Gertrude to Hecate.
Gabrielle Zevin
#28. The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place")
Gertrude Atherton
#29. There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
Gertrude Stein
#30. I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
Gertrude Stein
#32. Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
Gertrude Stein
#33. The way to resume is to resume.
If we knew everything ahead of time, all would be dictation not creation.
Gertrude Stein
#34. Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly!
Gertrude The Great
#36. It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.
Gertrude Stein
#38. It is all the question of identity ... As long as the outside does not put a value on you it remains outside but when it does put a value on you then it gets inside or rather if the outside puts a value on you then all your inside gets to be outside.
Gertrude Stein
#39. [Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.
Gertrude Atherton
#40. Every time we look at the Blessed Sacrament our place in heaven is raised forever.
Gertrude The Great
#41. There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.
Gertrude Stein
#42. There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War.
Gertrude Stein
#43. When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.
Gertrude Stein
#45. In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein
#46. One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows ... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.
Gertrude Stein
#47. It is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.
Gertrude Stein
#48. Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
Gertrude Stein
#49. I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
Gertrude Stein
#50. I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.
Gertrude Atherton
#51. 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
#52. Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
Gertrude Stein
#53. But what do you think, my lady?'
'I think that she must be cruel if she wants to be loved,' Gertrude explained. ' For once a lady succumbs to the man's desire, he rejects her as unworthy of it.'...Was love like a hunger, easily satisfied by feeding? Or did it grow by what it fed on?
Lisa Klein
#54. Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Gertrude Stein
#55. To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.
Gertrude Jekyll
#56. 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
#58. I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich.
Gertrude Stein
#59. But her role had changed; she was now available for marriage and her primary task was to find a mate. As Florence and Hugh Bell's daughter, she was expected to make an excellent match. And if there wasn't one here, at least she would learn how to conduct herself for the chase.
Janet Wallach
#60. Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!
Gertrude Atherton
#61. I'm not buried in that plot, Karoline. Some woman claiming to be me from the future is."
"Why do they call it a plot, anyway?"
"Because this is how every story ends.
Brian K. Vaughan
#62. A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
Gertrude Stein
#63. It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
#64. If my own experience had taught me anything, it was that, if a thing had to be done, it could be done.
Gertrude Lawrence
#66. 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
#67. Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
Gertrude Stein
#68. Aww, whats the problem, gertrude? You mean to tell me that you can't walk into a bar with a $100 bill on your forehead and walk with anything, either male or female?
Roddy Piper
#69. 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
#70. If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
Gertrude Stein
#71. When is there some discharge when. There never is.
Gertrude Stein
#72. Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
#73. I had fallen in love with a young man ... , and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis ... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery ...
Gertrude B. Elion
#74. All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?
Gertrude Bell
#75. I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Gertrude Stein
#77. Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
Gertrude Stein
#78. Slowly I came to know that the depth of our heartbreaks determines the depth of our faith. God gives us everything to conquer the big and the little hurts of life.
Gertrude Ederle
#80. The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.
Gertrude Atherton
#81. I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes do; it should be neither too large nor too small, but just comfortable.
Gertrude Jekyll
#82. If there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?
Gertrude Atherton
#83. So the legs are little short, the knees maybe knock a little but who listens?
Gertrude Berg
#84. Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
Gertrude Stein
#86. I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Gertrude Stein
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
Gertrude Stein
#90. What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein
#99. Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.
Gertrude Stein
#100. 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
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