Top 100 Stan Quotes
#1. How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?
Stan Brakhage
#2. Have Liverpool done too much tinkering and tailoring with the system?
Stan Collymore
#3. All stories come from the writer's heart, and all hearts speak the same language, a wordless language ancient as time, and for the writer, this is the eternal struggle, to translate the wordless into words.
Stan D. Jensen
#4. So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television.
Stan Lee
#5. A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection.
Stan Brakhage
#6. Man is born to dream, to be enlightened, to connect and to be fulfilled. Managers are too.
Stan Slap
#7. The last player to score a hatrick in a cup final was Stan Mortenson. He even had a final named after him, the Matthews final
Lawrie McMenemy
#8. As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.
Stan Getz
#9. Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses.
Stan Kroenke
#10. In a sense, the artwork is the most important thing in getting somebody to buy a book. The person probably won't buy a book if he doesn't like the artwork. Once you buy it for the artwork, you hope that the story will also be good.
Stan Lee
#11. I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.
Stan Musial
#12. I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I'd keep my job.
Stan Lee
#13. I think if I were a superhero saving the world, I'd expect at least not to have to pay income taxes. I mean there should be something in it for a hero who risks his life to save mankind every day.
Stan Lee
#14. I don't think I've got the stuff that Broadway musicals are made of. But there are definitely many musicals that I enjoy. 'Hair' and 'Rent' might be my favorites.
Sebastian Stan
#15. The Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) has done things that are far more heinous than anything Grant Ward has ever done as far as we know, and yet, at the end of the movie, you're rooting for him to come back on the side of the angels,
Jeph Loeb
#16. As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.
Jim Coleman
#17. Wives should be kissed - not heard.
Stan Lee
#18. Thou Shall Not Get Killed During courtship, partners are predisposed to anticipate their
Stan Tatkin
#19. I was turning down cigarette campaigns before it became fashionable. I wouldn't let CBS Radio sell 'The Stan Freberg Show' to R.J. Reynolds and American Tobacco, which had sponsored Jack Benny, the man I replaced.
Stan Freberg
#20. It's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a cow.
Stan Shih
#21. If this were a real Metallica album, "Enter Sandman" would be the worst song on the album, not the best.
Stan Jones
#22. It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too.
Stan Dale
#23. Bury My Heart is a life-altering approach to turning managers into unconditionally committed leaders.
Stan Slap
#24. In the 21st century, the database is the marketplace.
Stan Rapp
#26. My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.
Stan Getz
#27. The one unbreakable rule about hitting is this: if a batter hits well with his own particular stance and swing, think twice - or more - before suggesting a change.
Stan Musial
#28. I have to force myself to get angry. But I want to show the world that there's another side to me, that I am capable of deep, deep anger and fury. They better watch out for how I'm treated.
Stan Lee
#29. I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.
Linda Evans
#30. To tell you the truth, I never thought of myself as much of a success.
Stan Lee
#31. I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've probably written as many humor stories as superhero stories.
Stan Lee
#32. You know all is not well when Hell resorts to outsourcing to close deals made with the Devil. Or in this case, a guy named Stan.
Carl Begai
#33. All women are troublemakers who take the money their husbands need desperately for a new and better speaker, and selfishly squander it on things like shoes for the children, homogenized milk, or perhaps A SECOND DRESS!
Stan Freberg
#34. Just to get a job is always really exciting to me. I do feel there's a lot left for me to learn about movies, the subtleties of acting.
Sebastian Stan
#35. Don't use tap water to make your colloidal silver. Use pure distilled water only. And don't take very large dosages or strong concentrations for long periods of time.
Stan Jones
#36. I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.
Stan Getz
#37. If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see. Get so you can draw anything and it looks like what it's supposed to be. It's a lot of work, but if you really have it in you, it's not like work. It becomes fun.
Stan Lee
#38. The power of prayer is still the greatest ever known in this endless eternal universe.-The Watcher in The Avengers #14
Stan Lee
#39. As a player, remember that the bench is not a prison, but an extension of the first group. Concentrate on the quality of your play when you do get into the game. If you play 20 minutes, play the best 20 you can possibly play.
Stan Albeck
#40. I love the '50s and grew up loving works from that time period and from those great playwrights.
Sebastian Stan
#41. I think I would want to make toys. Maybe it's that thing about trying to be a kid forever.
Sebastian Stan
#42. There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go out and meet some of them rather than studying the way that Stan Lee or Chris Claremont depict people.
Alan Moore
#43. I don't really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.
Stan Lee
#45. Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.
Martin Fleischmann
#46. I guess one person can make a difference.
Stan Lee
#47. I don't think you can replaces great themes. But I think people do want to hear fresh arrangements of them. They don't want to hear them played the same way all the time.
Stan Kenton
#48. How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan
John Boyle O'Reilly
#49. When you first hear about this guy (Stan Musial), you say, 'it can't be true.' When you first meet him you say, 'It must be an act.' But as you watch him and watch him and see how he performs and how he comports himself you say, 'He's truly one of a kind.' There will never be another like him.
Jack Buck
#50. In baseball, there is something electrifying about the big leagues. I had read so much about (Stan) Musial, (Ted) Williams and (Jackie) Robinson. I had put those guys on a pedestal. They were something special. I really thought they put their pants on different, rather than one leg at a time.
Hank Aaron
#51. It needs to be said, over and over again, that Stan the Man was voted by 'The Sporting News' as the best baseball player of the postwar decade, from 1946 through 1955.
George Vecsey
#52. People always want to have ownership and decision-making and autonomy.
Stan Shih
#53. For the book unwritten is the book burned.
Stan Rice
#54. The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.
Stan Brakhage
#55. There must always be those with the fire of rebellion in their blood! There must always be those who will dare to fight an unbeatable enemy! Only thus can the race of man remain strong and fearless!
Stan Lee
#56. You can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!
Stan Freberg
#57. Sometimes it's okay to give yourself a pat on the back and say, 'That was cool. That made me feel good.'
Sebastian Stan
#58. You have to prove that the Freberg way will sell their product better than if they just did straight advertising. Whenever I give a lecture or seminar, that's what I try to get across to people. I hear very few radio commercials that sound like I could have written them or that they got the idea.
Stan Freberg
#59. No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.
Ty Cobb
#60. Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
#61. Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never outgrow your love for those imaginative, fanciful, farfetched, fantastic characters and situations.
Stan Lee
#62. No matter how good a story is, if you're at a newsstand and you see a lot of comic books, you don't know how good the story is unless you read it. But you can spot the artwork instantly, and you know whether you like the artwork, whether it grabs you or not.
Stan Lee
#63. There is no one correct way to bat, and so of course there is no one correct stance for it.
Stan Musial
#64. For men must never feel a cause is hopeless
men must never feel an enemy cannot be beaten!
Stan Lee
#65. I'm very proud of being a hack. It's why I've lived as long as I have, I think.
Stan Lee
#66. Believe me, it's always a lot harder on the guy getting fired.
Stan Van Gundy
#67. You're too old to still be playing. I'll buy you a rocker you can sit in.
Stan Mikita
#68. Your mind can make you sick, and your mind can heal you.
Stan Beecham
#69. You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still in some way the same character that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing back in the sixties. But, at the same time, you want to be able to tell new stories and not just rehash what's come before.
Jason Aaron
#70. The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.
Stan Getz
#71. So, as one famous writer said, "You need to know the rules first before you can break the rules". I do know the rules, but sometimes I choose to skirt around the edges, not enough to draw a penalty but certainly enough to raise some eyebrows.
Stan Schatt
#72. Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify.
Stan Smith
#74. A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.
Stan Smith
#75. You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.
Stan Laurel
#76. They may lack confidence in their ability to leave a romantic relationship when and if necessary. Fear of abandonment eclipses all other matters, including their own happiness in a relationship.
Stan Tatkin
#77. Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.
Dick Van Dyke
#78. AFC Wimbledon in the League! Talk about the ashes rising from the flames.
Stan Collymore
#79. A superhero's catchphrase should be like a really memorable advertising slogan. It sticks in your head and you can't stop humming it. And let's face it, superheroes are just really selling themselves as products.
Stan Lee
#82. I would add entertainment media cheerleader Wolf Blitzer, CNN's Pentagon sycophant in Kuwait City, a representative of the neon press, neon being that colorless, inert gas that lights up on command.
Stan Goff
#83. Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy of your drawing. The positives make the negatives and negatives make the positives.
Stan Smith
#84. Remember that Caligula was not a cause, he was an effect.
Stan Goff
#85. I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.
Stan Getz
#87. I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.
Stan Lee
#88. Who are taking to the witch burning Saturday night?
Stan Freberg
#89. I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.
Dan DeCarlo
#90. God pays twice as much attention on Christmas, like the media when a white kid goes missing.
Stan Smith
#91. Young professionals, I reminded myself, sympathetic as they may seem with a disarming modesty, are always necessarily invested in conservatism.
Stan Goff
#92. The fact of the matter is that people who have a strong desire to win, to be the best at what they do, are more likely to reach their full potential than someone who says, "I don't care if I win or lose, I just want to get better.
Stan Beecham
#93. Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.
Stan Lee
#94. God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis.
Albert Pujols
#95. I walked out the wrong car door and started walking into the crowd, An interviewer said, 'Give your best horror scream,' and Stan did this great scream, and I was too much of a wimp to do one. It was pathetic!
Robert Pattinson
#96. Fears and expectations that date back to earlier experiences of dependency, but that didn't arise during courtship or dating, are activated as commitment to the relationship increases. As a result, partners start to anticipate the worst, not the best from their relationship.
Stan Tatkin
#97. The personal values managers reported being the most under pressure to compromise to do their jobs successfully: 1. Family 2. Integrity.
Stan Slap
#98. I always had a dream to someday own an NBA team.
Stan Kroenke
#99. And the rain was brain colored
and the thunder sounded like something remembering something.
Stan Rice
#100. Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.
Martin Fleischmann
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