Stapes Quotes

#1. Do you know what a magical kingdom is in your ear? A fairy cave leads to an Ali Baba doorway, beyond which the bony little ossicles - Malleus, Incus, and Stapes - guard the great snail, Cochlea, to whom God has given the power to transform the indiscernible movement of air into music.

Kristin Chenoweth

#2. The right man won't care

Cassandra Clare

#3. I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.

Maurice Sendak

#4. Even when I don't see, I still believe.

Jeremy Camp

#5. The devil isn't a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, he's had his teeth pulled, and all he can do now is gum you.

Andrew Wommack

#6. One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates. Victims cry for justice, but leaders of new regimes must decide to what extent it is possible, moral or prudent to pursue evildoers of the past.

Stephen Kinzer

#7. I'm a Red-baiter; I'm a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.

Adolphe Menjou

#8. Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.

Bertrand Russell

#9. Be damned if I do. Be damned if I don't. Whatever I do, I can't do right by him.

Angela Khristin Brown

#10. Business of all kinds, over the centuries, had atrophied certain sense receptors and areas of the human brain, so that for most of the fellows taking part, the present-day rituals were no more, and even maybe a little less, than hollow mummery.

Thomas Pynchon

#11. Only the land remained, the silent order of the mountains, the ground covered in fallen dead leaves in the enormous space, a boundless expanse - disguising, concealing, hiding, covering all that lies below the burning earth.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#12. In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.

George Orwell

#13. Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.

John Dryden

#14. I'm not a typical couturier, although I really respect them.

Nicola Formichetti

#15. And sometimes, sometimes, wanting things, wishing for, working for them, is a good thing. Otherwise, we become nothing but spoiled boys and girls frustrated that we don't get every new toy we see.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#16. I need to take an emotional breath, step back, and remind myself who's actually in charge of my life.

Judith Knowlton