Stephen King Success Quotes

#1. When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.

Juliana Hatfield

#2. [E]ighty percent of success is just showing up.

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#3. When military men take over, honest men dance to the strings they pull.
Your life is no longer your own.

Howard Fast

#4. Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.

Stephen King

#5. I've owned mopeds in the past.

Brett Dalton

#6. These were early days for me in the American culture, and so I wasn't aware that when people are showing you guns, they're not threatening you, it's like they're showing you their art collection. For me, at that point, what he was presenting to me was very challenging.

John Lydon

#7. A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

Ron Howard

#8. The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual exhilaration and Illumination.

Ambrose

#9. The Angel of Death is always a young person, or a group of young people, you'll begin seeing them left and right soon.

Benjamin R. Smith

#10. Woody Allen was right: eighty percent of success is just showing up. "Take

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#11. This couple, so involved with babies, had never reproduced themselves, though they could have. This was an interesting comment on the whole idea of reproduction.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. Maybe they didn't choose locks because love is permanent. Maybe they chose locks because emotions bind us into place. They weigh us down.

Cora Carmack

#13. Things have changed so much now. Everything is downloaded onto computers. I'm not a computer-savvy guy, but with downloading the movie industry has changed.

Anthony Hopkins

#14. We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. He felt as he always did when he finished a book - queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity.

Stephen King

#16. My son, Achilles is of nobler birth than you and he is also by far the stronger man. But you are older than he is. It is for you to give him sound advice, make suggestions and give him a lead which he will follow to his own advantage.' Nestor

Homer

#17. They glanced around at each other almost furtively, embarrassed, as Americans always seem to be, by the raw fact of their own success - as if cash were hardcooked eggs and affluence the farts that inevitably follow an overdose of same.

Stephen King

#18. I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.

Frederick Lenz

#19. Nobility most fully resides not in success but in trying to do the right thing ... and that when we fail to do that, or willfully turn away from the challenge, hell follows.

Stephen King

#20. If something got you to turn off T.V. , it's a total success

Stephen King

#21. Silly words, silly words, silly awful hurting words.

Ray Bradbury

#22. When you've had a little success, magazines are a lot less apt to use that phrase, 'Not for us.

Stephen King