Stephen Elliott Quotes

#1. What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.

Stephen Elliott

#2. Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.

Stephen Elliott

#3. Champions are an example of what happens when you decide to leave the plane of average thinking, where you dare to dream and you dare to go after that dream, and you make these thoughts and ideas become more than something than just a dream. They actually become a vision.

Kai Greene

#4. Be checked for silence,
But never taxed for speech.

William Shakespeare

#5. New Orleans may be too seductive for a writer.

Walker Percy

#6. The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

James Fenimore Cooper

#7. In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.

Stephen Elliott

#8. Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.

Andy Stanley

#9. You're still home?" I ask. "It's not even curfew."
"Thought I'd grace you all with my presence." She pauses to smile.

Suzanne Young

#10. You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourself. p.32

Stephen Elliott

#11. Thought leadership is first and foremost life leadership.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#12. It's a game changer, not a game ender.

Joe Teti

#13. I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.

David James Elliott

#14. We understand the world by how we retrieve memories, re-order information into stories to justify how we feel.

Stephen Elliott

#15. We all think we're retaliating," I say. "That's the nature of conflict. We all think our actions are justified by someone else's actions. But actually, we're responsible for what we do.

Stephen Elliott

#16. I don't like jeans with holes in 'em. I like 'em faded.

Liam Gallagher

#17. You're only significant relationship of the last decade has been with a married man. Don't you want to be loved, don't you want someone to care about you, to actually give a shit about whether you've had a bad day?

Eleanor Prescott

#18. Other countries are way ahead of ours in nutrition.

Fred Richmond

#19. Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Jackie Chan

#20. For starters, we found out movies and TV had it all wrong. I had no problem with silver, and my Changes happened whenever, not just during the full moon. Then there was the big one. I wasn't bitten or scratched by another werewolf. As far as we could tell, I was born one.

Dan Trumpis

#21. The best book I read in 2007 was Stoner by John Williams. It's perhaps the best book I've read in years.

Stephen Elliott

#22. We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

Karl Barth