Top 100 Stan's Quotes
#1. Will you tell me that I'm just as good as Stan?"
Dudley hesitated. "Well, Stan's exceptional."
He looked again at G's sword. "But...yes. You are quite...good. Please don't kill me.
Cynthia Hand
#2. I don't take it for granted, because I saw the fruits of Stan's [Lee] 50-year labor, and I didn't have to wait 50 years myself.
Brian Michael Bendis
#3. They all shared Stan's personal allegiance to the famous old saying: War is not about dying for your country. It's about making the other guy die for his.
Lee Child
#4. Stan's father had told him that, before the money ran out, they had intended to put the statue of the soldier back up here again.
'I like the birdbath better, Daddy,' Stan said.
Mr Uris ruffled his hair. 'Me too, son,' he said. 'More baths and less bullets, that's my motto.
Stephen King
#5. What I find fascinating ... you have to give David Stern and the NBA a lot of credit ... ESPN pays the league, and then the league tells them what to do. It's more ESPN's problem. You gotta have no balls whatsoever to pay someone hundreds of millions of dollars and let them run your business.
Stan Van Gundy
#6. I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.
Stan Lee
#7. I've been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere. Money's okay, but what I really like is working.
Stan Lee
#8. A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don't know. Does anybody? Can you define it? All I know is that I learned how to get laughs, and that's all I know about it. You have to learn what people will laugh at, then proceed accordingly.
Stan Laurel
#9. The only time I go on the set is when I have a cameo to do in the picture. I go to the set and I do my little cameo and I meet all the people. It's a great way to spend the day. And then I go back to my own world.
Stan Lee
#10. If you have superheroes or characters that exist in the same world, and you're doing movies of them, wouldn't it be fun to put a couple of them together in one movie? Audiences love that. It's a natural thing to do that.
Stan Lee
#11. What the hell could you do? I've never been arrested, I haven't taken drugs, I've had the same wife for 54 years where's anything of interest to people?
Stan Lee
#12. Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.
Stan Musial
#13. A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.
Stan Sakai
#14. A lot of television stuff is mean-spirited, and I think that's how political advertising got so mean-spirited, to where people are throwing things at the television set every time we have an election.
Stan Freberg
#15. Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band ... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.
Stan Kenton
#16. It's the same hope we have to hold for humanity - that we can transform our roles, roles constructed like so many doors for us to go through by history, and by and by transform the whole edifice of human relations.
Stan Goff
#17. The public always loves anything that's different, as long as it's well-made, if it's well-done. You never know what to expect when you go to one of these so-called superhero movies.
Stan Lee
#18. People's lives are often other than they seem to be on the surface. And sometimes, what's underneath and hidden is the best part of all, the part of real value.
Stan Barstow
#19. If you don't like an ad, why should anybody else? ... We're all consumers ... That's why I always create commercials for myself first of all. I am the consumer I know best. If I think it's a great commercial, I figure the rest of the people might think so, too. I haven't been wrong so far.
Stan Freberg
#20. I work with people and we come up with ideas for movies, television and things like that. It's fun and I love doing it.
Stan Lee
#21. Oh well, thought Jane, that's how men are. He's probably taking it for granted. She found it very pleasant to be taken for granted by Stan
Beverly Cleary
#22. Well, Southerners like to eat well. You see, it's an event when it's done right.
Stan Shaw
#23. I'm just working with ideas in my head and with drawings that the artists did. And suddenly to see these things come to life in movies - it's just wonderful.
Stan Lee
#24. There's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations.
Stan Lee
#25. The decision as to what's funny and what is not funny shall rest solely with Mr. Freberg.
Stan Freberg
#26. I felt small, like one does when the distance between stars occasionally asserts itself into your understanding, like when your own death's inevitability leaps in front of you in the middle of the night when you get up to pee.
Stan Goff
#27. Sometimes with films you have a freedom to be able to, Okay, we got that take so let's try another one where suddenly I'll say this, or you'll get to improv. You can't do that with stage. We have to make it new every time, and also within the structured settings.
Sebastian Stan
#28. If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.
Stan Getz
#29. It's what you believe about your ability that shapes your potential success.
Stan Beecham
#30. They did offer me a chance of being a V in the crowd, but it's not my scene. I think they just thought it would be fun for me to do that, but I don't know. I heard that Stan Lee appears in every movie of his.
David Lloyd
#31. The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it.
Stan Barstow
#32. We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.
Stan Getz
#33. The tribe's survival and sustenance depended on each clan sharing its gifts without expectations of getting something in return. This relationship kept the Choptanks strong and united. They lived in a bountiful land, and although variety was not always available, there was plenty for everyone.
Stan E Hughes
#34. When a pitcher's throwing a spitball, don't worry and don't complain, just hit the dry side like I do.
Stan Musial
#35. Sometimes you don't want to get married too much to a lot of rehearsing, I feel, when it comes to film, because there's so many technicalities. So if I'm in my head, I've gotten settled on something, I'm gonna have to change it if I get there and something was set that's completely different.
Sebastian Stan
#36. There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.
Stan Sakai
#37. That sounds stupid, but people have to remember that being raised a white male in the U.S.in the fifties and sixties, for most of us, meant being raised stupid.
Stan Goff
#38. I still think that I'm dreaming. It's a strange feeling. I always try to watch the final of Grand Slams because that's where the best players are playing ... I never expected to play a final. I never expected to win a Grand Slam. And right now I just did it.
Stan Wawrinka
#39. You have to always look ahead, always be positive. It's your choice, your destiny. You have to enjoy life.
Stan Shih
#40. I'm a recovered alcoholic. I don't do anything anymore, but those things, those things take away ... You're a different personality completely when you take those. For those who are really chemically dependent on anything, it's not you.
Stan Getz
#41. A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.
Stan Sakai
#42. Don't let anger rule your life. Avoid confrontation. It's an imperfect world, and people make mistakes, even when they're trying to do their best.
Stan Hinden
#43. If you look at Stan Lee and the Marvel comics, yes, there's a lot of awesome, serious and dramatic action that takes place.
David Dastmalchian
#44. I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.
Dick Van Dyke
#45. Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit.
George Will
#46. The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't have time to think about anything else. You're just really present; you have to be, or else, you know, you can't stop the play.
Sebastian Stan
#47. I believe all of my talents come from the Lord. All of my talents are God-given - that's how I was able to write music without any professional musical training.
Stan Freberg
#48. When they ask me who's the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I'm going to say, you know, I don't know. Do you know? And then I'm going to say how's that going to create one job?
Herman Cain
#49. The freedom graciously granted to God's people is an invitation not to license but to a life of significance, holiness, beauty, and service.
Stan Guthrie
#50. It's easy to pretend you don't care about anything, Stan. It's also cowardly.
Sean Beaudoin
#51. We're living in a world where everything moves very quickly. We've become a very visual society, so I think it's a very natural thing that people are captivated with the illustrations in a story.
Stan Lee
#52. I think comics will always be around. I think there's something nice about a comic book. People love to hold 'em, turn the pages, fold 'em up, roll 'em up, stick 'em in their back pocket, show 'em to a friend, and say, "Hey, look at this."
Stan Lee
#53. 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
#54. I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.
Sebastian Stan
#55. Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population.
Stan Sakai
#56. No one is out to get you. It's just that ... people are monkeys.
Stan Brakhage
#57. There is a purpose to everything. We must simply learn to allow it to happen.
Stan I.S. Law
#58. If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader.
Stan Lee
#59. God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis.
Albert Pujols
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Believe me, it's always a lot harder on the guy getting fired.
Stan Van Gundy
#64. I'm very proud of being a hack. It's why I've lived as long as I have, I think.
Stan Lee
#65. It's always easier to pretend you know something than it is to learn about it. It's always easier to be cute than it is to be rigorous. It is easier to talk trash than it is to practice the humility of the serious student.
Stan Goff
#66. Sometimes it's okay to give yourself a pat on the back and say, 'That was cool. That made me feel good.'
Sebastian Stan
#67. 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
#68. I think I would want to make toys. Maybe it's that thing about trying to be a kid forever.
Sebastian Stan
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too.
Stan Dale
#73. It's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a cow.
Stan Shih
#74. 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
#75. Have Liverpool done too much tinkering and tailoring with the system?
Stan Collymore
#76. 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
#77. The thing to me that's fun is trying to make the characters seem believable, or realistic. And it's especially challenging when you're doing fantasy stories, when you're doing superhero types of things.
Stan Lee
#78. An apparently good way to get more information about religious group would be through the media. In actual fact, it's probably the worst. Why? Because what makes hot news stories are things like controversy, opposing views, harm, blood, sex, big names, big money, scandal, ect.
Stan Koehler
#79. I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there's good in every person,
Stan Lee
#80. Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.
Stan Smith
#81. That way nobody feels exploited."
"Wait a minute," says Stan. "Nobody's exploited?"
"I said nobody feels exploited," says Budge. "Different thing.
Margaret Atwood
#82. I get psyched about coming onto a Broadway stage every night. it's very exciting. You develop a kind of gratefulness for it when you spend months trying to get a job.
Sebastian Stan
#83. It's a tremendous challenge, because there have been so many characters created over the years. Every time you think you come up with a great name, you find out somebody has already done it. Dreaming up the stories isn't that hard, but coming up with a good title is the toughest part.
Stan Lee
#84. I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.
Stan Getz
#85. New truth: The first cause cannot always be the company. It must also be manager's deep fulfillment within the company.
Stan Slap
#86. I don't think there is anyone in any sport who combined the supreme talent with a great personality. He is also is one of the most wonderful people who ever walked the face of the earth. I don't think there's anybody who compares to Stan Musial on both fronts.
Jack Buck
#87. No manager wants success completely defined on the company's terms. They want success defined by their own terms too.
Stan Slap
#88. A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
Stan Getz
#89. What's Your Purple Goldfish? busts a myth and reveals a simple truth about customer service. Stan uncovers the recipe for creating signature added value that increases customer satisfaction and drives positive word of mouth.
Barry Moltz
#90. Hearing myself so much all the time, I don't think I sound that special all the time because it's me.
Stan Getz
#91. When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what Ted Williams and Stan Musial meant when they said it got tougher to get in shape every year.
Eddie Mathews
#92. It was the Trashcan Man," Stan said. "He went hogwild. Jesus Christ only knows what else he's wired up to explode out here.
Stephen King
#93. I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.
Sebastian Stan
#94. To my way of thinking, whether it's a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you've got to care about the characters. You've got to understand the characters and you've got to be interested. If the characters are interesting, you're half-way home.
Stan Lee
#95. The question is not how to get managers' emotional commitment but why manager's don't give it even if they like their company.
Stan Slap
#96. Why don't you steal the pattern out of Kenton's '23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West'?" the trombonist, an alumnus of Stan Kenton's big band, said.
James Kaplan
#97. A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.
Stan Musial
#98. When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing.
Stan Lee
#99. Arsene Wenger is just an unbelievable manager. I think he's a tremendous person, and he is just as good as there is. You can't judge a manager on one game or on one stretch of games. You judge him over time.
Stan Kroenke
#100. I do conventions sometimes every other weekend. Whenever I have time, and it's not too far away. I get a lot of invitations (to appear at conventions) in other countries and I have to turn them down.
Stan Lee
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