Top 100 Stahl Quotes
#1. You know those moments, whether you're in them or not, you feel something more than what you intended to feel, what you wanted to feel.
Shey Stahl
#2. How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.
Jerry Stahl
#3. I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real.
Jerry Stahl
#4. You were made to love me." he said against my lips."Only me.I know. I whispered.
Shey Stahl
#5. Let me tell you something. Boring women get a bad rap. There's a lot to be said for boring women.
Jerry Stahl
#6. I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room.
Jerry Stahl
#7. In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.
Jerry Stahl
#8. Sometimes everything changes and you're left wondering how it happened and where you could have down shifted.
Shey Stahl
#9. Sometimes, it's like you know what people think: You know what they're thinking, and you know it's wrong. All you want to do if change their mind, but you can't.
Jerry Stahl
#10. I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.
Lesley Stahl
#11. With enough rock in your system, you could hear every noise in the universe.
Jerry Stahl
#12. If someone asked you what color the sky is, what would you say?
Shey Stahl
#13. Pat Boone still didn't cover public cunt-licks in Tips for Teens, and there really wasn't anybody to ask.
Jerry Stahl
#14. There was a weird intimacy, sitting in a car together. Couples sat in cars. Cops and their partners. Strangers became unstrange, sharing a windshield view of the world.
Jerry Stahl
#15. Junkies are liars. They have to be professionally.
Jerry Stahl
#16. The sea had a way of re-energizing, of refreshing, of making one feel stronger and able to conquer life's ups and downs. They each let the strength of it seep in as they pieced the puzzle together.
J. Dana Stahl
#17. I know how you feel. I know because I live for the moment I hear your voice when you answer ... and everything changes for me. I live for the hello.
Shey Stahl
#18. Serving Leaders build teaching organizations to create excellence at every level.
John Stahl-Wert
#19. I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.
Jerry Stahl
#20. Where are we going tonight?"
"To meet Eddy at the Brickyard again. It's Thirsty Thursday apparently."
"Oh no, not participating in Thirsty Thursday. Wasted Wednesday was enough for me."
"Just be thankful it's not Mystery Monday or Tanked Tuesday.
Shey Stahl
#21. Being a junkie, when you broke it down, was nothing more than a crazed day job.
Jerry Stahl
#22. If you want to do something that really changes someone's life, the best thing you can do is make the person you're trying to help a participant in the process.
John Stahl-Wert
#23. The thing is, all my heroes were junkies. Lenny Bruce, Keith Richards, William Burroughs, Miles Davis, Hubert Selby, Jr ... These guys were cool. They were committed. They would not have been caught dead doing an ALF episode.
Jerry Stahl
#24. The obvious question: Was it better to die now or go on living ashamed of the fact that you were still alive? Why wasn't that on the SATs? Compare and constrast.
Jerry Stahl
#25. If you're an asshole, you have an excuse for being an asshole because you're a junkie. But then once you give up the drugs, and you're still an asshole, that's problematic.
Jerry Stahl
#26. I am convinced there's a gramma gene that disables the word "no.
Lesley Stahl
#27. You can't see something shining if you're eyes are closed.
Shey Stahl
#28. People always ask, "What's the worst thing heroin drove you to do?". I always answer, "showing up on Maury.
Jerry Stahl
#29. This is, I believe, what happens when people take their own lives. They're not killing themselves, they're killing the world. Either to spare it pain or to cause it some, depending.
Jerry Stahl
#30. If You Don't Believe in You, No One Else Can What's fun in life is knowing you're not good at something and then making yourself good at it. - Lesley Stahl
Susan Wilson Solovic
#31. Happiness, to me, was no different than Mom's paprikalaced domino bars: something that looked sweet until you took a bite, and then made you want to vomit.
Jerry Stahl
#32. A Serving Leader who creates a powerful churn of productivity needs a team that can put itself at the service of others.
John Stahl-Wert
#33. What we craved was drugs. What we had was each other.
Jerry Stahl
#34. It is actually against the law for a citizen to give money to a terrorist.
Lesley Stahl
#35. All my life I'd gone for women who were a little off.
Jerry Stahl
#36. Don't have regrets or second thoughts." she told me" Love, love with all your heart,every piece of it.Love anything as much as you can.
Shey Stahl
#37. Life can be lived as a temporary arrangement. Life is a temporary arrangement! But the longer you go without changing, the more obscure the likelihood you ever will. After enough time passes, the idea of another way of life grows even more misty.
Jerry Stahl
#38. This is the only time in our lives we fall madly in love before we know what the person is like. ~Ellen Goodman
Lesley Stahl
#39. John Hawkes is amazing. I really want to meet that man; he's so good. Him and Ben Foster, and I'm a big fan of Nick Stahl - those are my three guys.
Rory Culkin
#40. Becoming a gran exhilarated me with a new purpose. The change was so big & granular & unexpected, I wanted to understand it. .,.. Does it happen this way to all grandmothers?
Lesley Stahl
#41. The second time I took acid, I watched myself in the mirror for nine hours. What I realized, when I stared, was that my face looked exactly the same when I cried as when I laughed. After awhile I couldn't tell which I was doing. Relief was just pain inside out.
Jerry Stahl
#42. The strict mother she & her brother had grown up with was body-snatched. "...Who are you? What did you do with my mother?
Lesley Stahl
#43. We can't live together," I remember screeching. "We're married. It's too corny!
Jerry Stahl
#44. It feels like I went right from pubescent to senior citizen. But what are you going to do? I'm lucky I caught myself. I might have ended up the only man in the rest home who still thought Jack Kerouac was cool.
Jerry Stahl
#45. I want her sunrise and her sunset.
Shey Stahl
#46. I am always going to be a theater actor at heart. One of my career goals is to do "Shakespeare in the Park" someday but for now I am really excited to get working on another movie.
Michael Stahl-David
#47. Oh man. If I had magic powers ... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.
Nick Stahl
#48. Not until you finally try to put down the stuff do you realize, with stinging clarity, precisely why you picked it up in the first place. All life, in this freshly nerve-flayed state, boils down to a choice of hells. The hell of being fucked-up on drugs or the hell of being fucked-up without them.
Jerry Stahl
#49. You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it.
Jerry Stahl
#50. I always tell myself, when I remember the non-stop self-generated hell party that used to be my life, I wouldn't be here if I didn't go there.
Jerry Stahl
#51. It was our story, played out on the open highway chasing sunsets. It wasn't an easy story to tell you. It was a story of kisses, lust, passion, youth, mistakes, lies, hiding, stupidity, judging, but most of all, love.
Shey Stahl
#52. I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often mistake stress for fuel ... to me, stress is just another bad drug that I don't want to do.
Jerry Stahl
#53. You may think you don't want to throw your life away for mere fleeting euphoria. But, once you get a taste, it doesn't feel so mere.
From then on the planet becomes a waiting room. The rest of your life devolves to no more than the time between highs.
Jerry Stahl
#54. How can you think that? Don't you see it, Ro? The blood that runs through my veins, the air that fills my lungs, it belongs to you. It's only ever be you for me.
Shey Stahl
#55. Heroin spread that soft blanket over everything. But once the blanket was ripped off, it took a layer of skin with it, leaving nothing but nerve ends screaming in the breeze.
Jerry Stahl
#56. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?
Lesley Stahl
#57. Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.
Georg Ernst Stahl
#58. He hadn't expected anyone so pretty, and it threw him. Tina had the Faye Dunaway thing. Faye before the surgery, when her cheekbones were still as sharp as can openers and she looked like a feral gazelle.
Jerry Stahl
#59. I had no idea how fast we were going but i could have sworn on a stack of bibles, I saw Jesus when my face was inches from the wall on the third straightaway
Shey Stahl
#60. Tina hit that tingle in the back of his head, the fuse that usually stayed damp, the one that got lit on those rare occasions when he met a woman who actually scared him. It was sort of like sex, but harder to find.
Jerry Stahl
#61. Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn't know you needed transforming.
Jerry Stahl
#62. When I told him about Jordan, out flashed pictures of his grandkids. This was how I was introduced to the secret society of grans. We're instant compatriots. If you want to break the ice with someone who's in the society, all you have to do is ask, "So how old is yours?
Lesley Stahl
#63. I know it sounds lame, but I have to dig the way you think, and I have to feel you get me. My whole fucking life, I pretended I could relate to chicks so I could get into their pants. Then once I got in, all I wanted was out again.
Jerry Stahl
#64. I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.
Jerry Stahl
#65. She felt that the diving image of Mme Stahl that she had carried in her soul for a whole month had vanished irretrievably ... And by no effort of imagination could she bring back the former Mme Stahl.
Leo Tolstoy
#67. Opiates are, by their very nature, about forgetting. When you're in that narcotic haze, memory functions like some mutant projector, a hell-tuned Bell & Howard. As the film goes in one end, at the other end it's immediately eaten by some kind of acid, dissolving the second the events transpire.
Jerry Stahl
#68. I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.
Lesley Stahl
#69. Sometimes what I did five minutes ago scared the fuck out of me five minutes later.
Jerry Stahl
#70. I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.
Nick Stahl
#71. Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness.
Jerry Stahl
#72. This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it.
Jerry Stahl
#73. It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles
Jerry Stahl
#74. My life - and this hit so hard I nearly toppled over - my life was Apollo 13! Launched with high expectations and pathetically crashed.
Jerry Stahl
#75. I used to say, for me, writing was like walking a high wire, and heroin made me forget there was no net. Which is a fancy way of saying dope made me forget how shitty I felt for being on dope.
Jerry Stahl
#76. I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.
Jerry Stahl
#77. Serving Leaders work hard to get obstacles out of the way so others can make progress.
John Stahl-Wert
#78. My own theory is that people are just so desperate for somebody they can feel better than, in America. Now that everyone's going broke and working 17 jobs - if they have one at all - at least they can look at these guys behind bars and think, "At least I get to wear my own clothes to work."
Jerry Stahl
#79. Our dirty talking quickly turned to "Do you need a good spanking?" which I enjoyed but when it turned to "Who's your daddy?" I slapped him across the face and told him to shut the hell up and just fuck me
Shey Stahl
#80. My mom,Sarah used to tell me that you could be anywhere when you life begins but you wouldn't know it until it changed everything you thought you knew
Shey Stahl
#81. No bond is greater than the ones you'll bleed for.
Shey Stahl
#82. Everybody knows if it's on the Internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it.
Lesley Stahl
#83. I believe that people come into your life and then some go.I also think there's a purpose as to why they were in your life at all.Each one takes a piece of you when they go.Some leave pieces of themselves with you.Sometimes its's wisdom, or maybe,it's a lesson.
Shey Stahl
#84. Time is a long long long time before the dawn - Crosby, Stills & Nash
Ricky Stahl
#85. At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.
Jerry Stahl
#86. Well, it was very interesting to play a character and stretch it over such a long time - 12 episodes. I had never done a TV show before, so week to week it was unclear what we would be asked to do.
Nick Stahl
#87. I knew one thing, this pit lizard was going to have a good time tonight!
Shey Stahl
#88. Half the reason I turned into a writer is you didn't have to show up anywhere. You could work naked.
Jerry Stahl
#89. Not doing something crude right off is about as close as a guy like me ever gets to class.
Jerry Stahl
#90. Did I get my picture in the yearbook under "Most Likely to Commit Suicide"?
Jerry Stahl
#91. My mouth tastes like bad decisions.
Shey Stahl
#92. Have you ever been in love? It's a question you're asked a lot as a kid from your friends, adults, anyone. They're curious. How do you know you're in love? Do we even really know what love means? It's just a word to define a feeling.
Shey Stahl
#94. This book, for me, is less an exercise in recall than exorcism.
Jerry Stahl
#95. Be alive, be wide awake, be anything but boring.
Shey Stahl
#97. Get the very best tools to serve your people, not just lots of tools.
John Stahl-Wert
#98. I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's private lives are just so much more bizarre and Ted Haggard-like than you could ever imagine. It's almost hard to write fiction anymore.
Jerry Stahl
#100. I did not mean to sodomize Dick Cheney.
Jerry Stahl
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