Stanley Kauffmann Quotes

#1. The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

Frederick Jackson Turner

#2. Fashion as a whole is a farce, completely. The people behind it are perverted, the styles are created by freaked out people, just natural weirdos. I know this because I worked with all those people while I was modeling.

Edie Sedgwick

#3. Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country.
(Poplar Bluff, Missouri, 6 September, 2004)

George W. Bush

#4. What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acceptable to oneself.

Stanley Kauffmann

#5. When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

George Carlin

#6. Go for the impossible. I always tried to find my own limits. So far I did not find them, so my universe is in constant expansion.

Paulo Coelho

#7. Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

Carroll Quigley

#8. The next great step of mankind is to step into the nature of his own mind.

Stanley Kauffmann

#9. Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.

Mikhail Bakunin

#10. I have a good many books on hand, but I am sorry to say that as usual I make small progress with any.

Emily Bronte

#11. [A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.

James Madison

#12. No one of you is insignificant, in part because you make the gospel of Jesus Christ what it is - a living reminder of His grace and mercy, a private but powerful manifestation in small villages and large cities of the good He did and the life He gave bringing peace and salvation to other people.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#13. The decision about digital or film is going to be made for us. I think the answer is that film is gonna be gone, although I think it'll make a comeback; it'll be like vinyl records or something.

James Gray

#14. Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.

Carlos P. Romulo

#15. Don't touch me, I'm diabetic.

Brandon DiCamillo

#16. People don't like getting older, but they do like changing. Staying the same is a kind of death.

Tommy Wallach

#17. Sports is a bunch of people gathering around, watching something that they're not actually connected to - they're just emotionally connected.

George Stroumboulopoulos