Top 100 Stella's Quotes
#1. Stella's father hesitated. "Georgia supports me, but she was a mite trembly this morning. I brought Stella though."He squeezed her shoulders affectionately. "I don't want to just tell her about bravery--I want to show her what it looks like.
Sharon M. Draper
#3. I think Stella's a little scared of you," he said, while I changed for bed in the bathroom. "And you're not?" I called out. "Of you? You have the soul of a kitten." I popped my head out of the bathroom. "A kitten." "An assassin kitten.
Michelle Hodkin
#4. Even Billy Andrews' boy is going - and Jane's only son - and Diana's little Jack," said Mrs. Blythe. "Priscilla's son has gone from Japan and Stella's from Vancouver - and both the Rev. Jo's boys. Philippa writes that her boys 'went right away, not being afflicted with her indecision.
L.M. Montgomery
#6. Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face, She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.
Callimachus
#7. What's the sense of living if you're ashamed of yourself? Stella's father said almost to himself.
Sharon M. Draper
#8. Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. "My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes," he said with gentle reproach. "Much as I love you, I cannot permit you to maul this particular coat.
Georgette Heyer
#9. When the salute had finished, people applauded, and the cold group began to break up.
"That's enough noise to wake the dead," a voice said very near Stella's ear.
J.J. Cook
#10. Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.
Frank Stella
#11. It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.
Stella McCartney
#12. It's not right because it just isn't. You can't go round making up evidence just because you're convinced someone is guilty. You can't be judge and jury; that's not your job. (Liz)
Stella Rimington
#13. Linear's defeated form
The intangible reality rise.' ~ Wanderer
Stella Coulson
#14. In many ways, I'm incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it's visible. It means my path has been predictable.
Stella Young
#15. Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history.
Stella Young
#16. It's not about what it looks like in the studio or on the runway. It's what it looks like on a real person that matters.
Stella McCartney
#17. Me and Vinny are dead careful, and we only had sex once without a condom, our first time, and it's a scientific fact that virgins can't get pregnant. Stella told me.
David Mitchell
#18. I think deep down I'm spiritual, but there's nothing I practice.
Stella McCartney
#19. The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.
Robert Gottlieb
#20. For me, disability is a physical experience, but it's also a cultural experience and a social experience, and for me, the word 'crip' is the one that best encapsulated all of that.
Stella Young
#21. Stella, you totally deserve double whatever Jackie's paying you.
Veronica Blade
#22. Each grabbing one silver-wrapped chocolate from Mrs. Cooper's basket, it struck Stella that everyone got the same thing, no matter which school they went to.
Sharon M. Draper
#23. It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules!
Stella Adler
#24. I think it's very wrong to have the mass murder, every single day, of millions of animals.
Stella McCartney
#25. I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.
Stella Benson
#26. Bad writers don't practice, Stella. It's the good ones who care enough to try, who worry about getting the words just right. You are probably better than you think -Papa
Sharon M. Draper
#27. I don't use specific brands really. It's just that for my skin, I need as high an SPF factor as I can get my hands on. That's the only rule.
Stella McCartney
#28. The Abbe's warning: 'Never confront an enemy at the end of a journey, unless it happens to be his journey'.
Stella Gibbons
#29. No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.
Frank Stella
#30. You want to be confident when you work out because it takes a lot to make you work out. So many women really enjoy it, but it's a hard thing and you have to make yourself do it most of the time. I think you want to feel that you look good to make you want to work out a little bit more.
Stella McCartney
#31. I'm not offended or embarrassed by the fact that I design clothes for women to wear. So when I meet women who love my clothes, it's a really good, straightforward thing. It makes me feel like I'm doing my job right.
Stella McCartney
#32. Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.
Stella Blum
#33. It's incredibly important that if you have the dream of having your own house, you don't pretend to be something you're not. Ultimately, it's unsustainable and people will see through. You have to work; you can't expect your dreams to be handed to you on a plate.
Stella McCartney
#34. I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
Frank Stella
#35. But I am clinically depressed and have an anxiety disorder, which interferes with things like studying and learning and breathing and living. He thinks it's something I can just turn off and on with willpower.
Leslie Stella
#36. You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.
Stella Adler
#37. We believe in you, Phoebe," Stella says. "You just have to believe in yourself."
I roll my eyes behind the blindfold. As if that's not a cheesy, movie-of-the-week line.
Tera Lynn Childs
#38. Truth needs wisdom's guidance. Wisdom prevents a hard truth from getting the best of you when an imperfect character brings out the worst in you.
Stella Payton
#39. I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away.
Stella Vine
#40. He was enmeshed in his grief. He did not notice that Graceless's leg had come off and that she was managing as best she could with three.
Stella Gibbons
#41. I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 million-ish disabled people, ticking boxes and recording my life for other people is what I've spent a fair chunk of my time doing.
Stella Young
#42. Mrs. Smiling's second interest was her collection of brassieres, and her search for the perfect one. She was reputed to have the largest and finest collection of these garments in the world. It was hoped that on her death it would be left to the nation.
Stella Gibbons
#43. Stella Suberman's Suggestions for Further Reading
The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi, by Edward Cohen
The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South, by Eli N. Evans
Insecure Prosperity, by Ewa Morawska
The Slow Way Back, by Judy Goldman
Stella Suberman
#44. You will fail. That's great. Here's a secret for you - that's the only way you can learn. Learning has to cost you something. If you fail but learn something from your failure, you will grow.
Stella Adler
#45. Stella McCartney, not only is she a designer, she is a mother of four, and she lives for practicality. She understands what a woman needs to wear to work and what a woman needs to wear when it's time to go out and put on the Ritz!
Andre Leon Talley
#46. We try to make earth-friendly decisions whenever we can, as it's part of our brand DNA.
Stella McCartney
#47. ... Finally, although Tennent's Super Strong lager, White Lightning, and for the rare rich alcoholic Stella Artois are perfectly acceptable drinks, could you please come up with something less damaging? I think lighter fuel is better for you and contains fewer chemicals.
Tom Reynolds
#48. That winter everything changed. Stella had lost not only her twin but her best friend. Bayonie was never mentioned again, so that, in time, Stella wondered if she really had ever existed.
Helen Laycock
#49. You feel like everyone hates you if you've got a good life, now I feel maybe it's allowed because I've had my share of sadness.
Stella McCartney
#50. Names?' the receptionist asked us.
"Jesus," Jamie answered.
"Mary," said Stella.
"Satan," I said as I walked past her and pushed open the door to Ira Ginsberg's office.
Michelle Hodkin
#51. As a designer, I like to work with fabrics that don't bleed; that's why I avoid all animal skins.
Stella McCartney
#52. There's as much chance of me leaving this kitchen," Stella says, "as you putting down a book.
Menna Van Praag
#53. Disability informs almost every part of my life. It's as important, if not more so, than my gender and sexuality. It's certainly a great deal more important to me than my religion or whether or not I caught a tram, ferry or bus to work.
Stella Young
#54. Finally he said, "Bad writers don't practice, Stella. It's the good ones who care enough to try, who worry about getting the words just right. You are probably better than you think.
Sharon M. Draper
#55. When patronised, I'm unfortunately more flight than fight. Perhaps it's because I actually feel quite wounded.
Stella Young
#56. I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.
Frank Stella
#57. The consumption of animals - whether you're wearing them or eating them - is extraordinarily damaging to the planet. There are over a billion animals killed a year for food, half of which don't even get eaten. And there's over 50 million animals killed just for fashion.
Stella McCartney
#58. People with disabilities are simply part of diverse communities in the U.S.
Stella Young
#59. All the same, I don't mean nothin' you wouldn't like yer mas to know about, see? That's straight, that is. It's Art, and that makes all the difference. *When it ain't Art it's dirt, but if it's Art it's all right, see?*
Stella Gibbons
#60. The really great thing about my shop is that there's not one dead animal in it ... Manolo's got a load of fabric shoes as well! We use plastic, fabric, rubber- anything but leather. I almost feel like I've been put here to show everyone that it's unnecessary.
Stella McCartney
#61. Today's fathers and mothers
with only the American dream for guidance
extend and overextend themselves, physically, emotionally,and financially, during the best years of their lives to ensure that their children will grow up prepared to do better and go further than they did.
Stella Chess
#62. One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.
Stella Gibbons
#63. I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.
Stella McCartney
#64. If you try to create something people enjoy, and it happens to be made in a responsible way, then that's when you can really strike an incredible balance.
Stella McCartney
#65. The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.
Stella Adler
#66. Hello, Alan." said Carol's dad Keith.
"Hello, Alan." said Carol's mum, Stella, not bothering to think of a greeting of her own.
Alan Partridge
#67. Stella bit her lower lip. "That's probably my fault. I shouldn't have said all those things last night. I mean, what happened to Jaxson, it wasn't your fault." I
Heather West
#68. Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it.
Stella McCartney
#69. I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.
Anthony Hopkins
#70. The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing what you said. It will come back to you again and again, people will always tell you about it. Even if you were the source of what's wrong with it.
Frank Stella
#71. Stella says older men make better lovers; with boys our age, she says, the ice cream melts once the cone's in your hand.
David Mitchell
#72. The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.
Stella Adler
#73. There's nothing fashionable about a dead animal that has been cruelly killed just because some people think it looks cool to wear.
Stella McCartney
#74. Women are all alike
aye fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes, when all they really want is man's blood and his heart out of his body and his soul and his pride ...
Stella Gibbons
#75. Don't use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don't want you to be stuck with your own life. It's too little.
Stella Adler
#76. Ruby.
"She's here, Stella," I whisper "Ruby's safe. Just like I promised.
Katherine Applegate
#77. I love Stella McCartney because she's timeless and classic, and I love Isabel Marant for wearability - you don't need 'an occasion' for her clothes.
Louise Nurding
#78. Life in the theatre isn't necessarily when you get money from performing. It isn't when you sign a contract. It isn't even when you are in a play. It's when you understand it. If you understand it, you'll know why you want to act.
Stella Adler
#79. It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age.
Frank Stella
#80. I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing.
Stella Young
#81. I had been painting Kate Moss for a long time, both before the time of her crisis and during it. I felt very strongly for her - she's a hard-working mum and it seemed as if suddenly the world turned against her. Holy water cannot help you now is painted in very warm pretty colours ...
Stella Vine
#82. For me, women's ski wear has always been black and, again, not as feminine or sexy as I think it could look while still having the technology there.
Stella McCartney
#83. I think it's entirely possible to have a career in fashion and raise a child. Stella McCartney is on her fourth child and remains both a fashion icon and a great mom.
Rodger Berman
#84. Death is not treatment, even if it's medically facilitated.
Stella Young
#85. When you think of fashion photography, it's a dream. It's like we all want to be those women. We want to wear those dresses.
Stella McCartney
#86. The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who's going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want to do.
Stella Young
#87. The Paralympics have for too long been considered the poor cousin of the Olympics. It's always run after the main games and rarely gets anything like the media coverage.
Stella Young
#89. I let go of the notion of wanting someone to ignore the way I look in order to find me attractive, because really, what kind of relationship would that be? One where someone's only attracted to you because they're ignoring a fundamental part of you? No thanks.
Stella Young
#90. It's a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that's why actors do what we do. We like to play other people. It's therapeutic.
Stella Maeve
#91. I'm a fan of designers and clothes that look beautiful, but more importantly, make me feel beautiful and confident. It's why I've always loved Stella McCartney, and more recently, Prabal Gurung. Their pieces are cool, yet timeless, and the fits are effortlessly flattering.
Shay Mitchell
#92. In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.
Stella Adler
#93. She could feel magic in the quiet spring day, like a sorcerer's far-off voice, and lines of poetry floated over her mind as if they were strands of spider-web.
Stella Gibbons
#94. I went to school, I got good marks, I had a very low key after-school job, and I spent a lot of time watching 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and 'Dawson's Creek.'
Stella Young
#95. How are we supposed to get in?"
Stella kicked the metal shutter.
"Fool of a Took!" Jamie hissed through his teeth. "If someone's in there, they probably heard that.
Michelle Hodkin
#96. I just remember Stella Tenant and me dancing in Donatella Versace's bathtub until like four in the morning. It was one of those 'pinch me' moments.
Carolyn Murphy
#97. Where do starfish come from?" asked Sam.
"From the sky," answered Stella. "Starfish are shooting stars that fell in love with the sea."
"Weren't the stars afraid of drowning?" asked Sam.
"No," said Stella. "They all learned how to swim.
Marie-Louise Gay
#98. I've lived on my own since I was 13 and not been to school and brought a son up who's now 18 and run theatre companies and bought a butcher's shop, learnt guitar by myself, taught myself to sing and that sort of stuff.
Stella Vine
#99. If everyone's looking at me, I might as well say something interesting.
Stella Young
#100. Do you think people can change?" I ask Rick
"Yes." he answers plainly. "There are those who can."
That grabs my attention. "So you believe it's possible?"
"Miss Stella."He gives me his teacher-to-pupil stare. "Its boils down to choice.
Katie McGarry
