Stockton Quotes

#1. Jessica had, however, convinced herself that Richard's troll collection was a mark of endearing eccentricity, comparable to Mr. Stockton's collection of angels.

Neil Gaiman

#2. Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.

Belle Boyd

#3. So that's when he leaned over to me [in the timeout] and said, 'Stockton is probably going to double team, so be ready.' [Stockton did double, leaving Kerr open].

Sam Smith

#4. John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!

Bill Walton

#5. Not that he regretted having killed the guy in Stockton. The one who'd been ready to shoot him over the five crumpled dollar bills in his jeans pocket. He was quite happy to have sent that particular home boy to hell.

L.J.Smith

#6. In Stockton, Illinois,

Jamie Gilson

#7. Do you always mix business and pleasure?" She flashed her most alluring smile.

"Miss Stockton, when you own an inn, your business is pleasure.

J.M. Maxim

#8. In 19 years Stockton never once lost a suicide drill in practice. Well, there was one day. He was sick. But he still ran it

Jerry Sloan

#9. I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.

Scott Brooks

#10. For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.

Karl Malone

#11. It's so egotistical to believe that we know more about someone else's reality than they do, and such a waste of time.

Shreve Stockton

#12. All paths are present, always ... and we can but choose among them.

Jacqueline Carey

#13. I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

Frank Richard Stockton

#14. I think it was probably both the coincidence and the beer that made Miralles say at some point that we were going to end up the same, defeated and alone and
punch-drunk in a dead-end city, pissing blood before going into the ring to fight to the death against our own shadows in an empty stadium.

Javier Cercas

#15. The key ideas are simple. Find your own signature and stick to it, and follow a consistent routine. Feel it instead of trying to do it. Improve your visual interpretation of the speed and line of your putt, and roll the ball without wasting too much time and letting that visualization deteriorate.

Dave Stockton

#16. Any obstacle is an opportunity to gain strength and think differently.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.

Frank R. Stockton

#18. What is "should," anyway?

Chrissy Stockton

#19. I trusted you," my voice shaky with anger and exhaustion.
"I know," Cole said simply. "And now I have all of eternity to earn your forgiveness.

Brodi Ashton

#20. The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

James Earl Jones

#21. I think that the Detroit auto industry is important to the United States. It's important for hundreds of thousands of Americans who have their jobs as a result.

John Boehner

#22. I had this big complex because I didn't go to college. There was a whole era where I got linked to everybody. People that I had never met. I was like, "How? I'm home alone reading chapter 12 of a book."

Winona Ryder

#23. You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

Bret Michaels

#24. When you don't have a future, you act different. You don't plan. You don't try. You just... exist

Sarah Fine

#25. May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

Frank Richard Stockton

#26. Observable Fact: Families are the worst.

Nicola Yoon

#27. I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me.

Frank Richard Stockton

#28. If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do ... the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.

George S. Patton Jr.