Stodgy Quotes

#1. Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

Carl Jung

#2. A message To the children who have read this book. When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important. A stodgy parent is no fun at all! What a child wants -and DESERVES- is a parent who is SPARKY! - Danny, the champion of the world.

Roald Dahl

#3. The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Jacob Bronowski

#4. Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor?

Katherine Mansfield

#5. But the world is winding down, and you take what you're given.

M.R. Carey

#6. All art is knowing when to stop.

Toni Morrison

#7. I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.

Boots Riley

#8. Any problems with your flight? (Acheron) I didn't eat my pilot if that's what you mean. And little Nicky here is still breathing and not bleeding. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. I'd like to think my company HootSuite is anything but a stodgy old-boys' club. As a social media company, our employees are by and large young, progressive and open-minded.

Ryan Holmes

#10. I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous loveliness.

Philippa Gregory

#11. And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them.

Alan Sokal

#12. Armageddon chickens.

Ransom Riggs

#13. I want people to suffer less, and I think it's possible.

Katy Butler

#14. When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants - and DESERVES - is a parent who is SPARKY!

Roald Dahl

#15. If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bonds, society perishes.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#16. There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

Anna Quindlen

#17. I think when you do things outside of what you're interested in, you meet people and get ideas to bring in to whatever it is you love doing the most.

Gia Coppola

#18. The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

Carl Sagan

#19. I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.

Edward Ruscha

#20. Interruptions were sometimes more frequent than statements. The process, compared to a well-managed executive conference, was a slab of raw beef compared to a wiring diagram. Raw beef, however, functions better than a wiring diagram would, in its place - inside a living animal.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#21. People grow; people grow apart, and cancer ... I've had a very in-depth and personal experience with cancer, and it really causes a perspective shift.

Justin Baldoni

#22. To him, she was one of the few girls who was nice to him, the stodgy son of a poor alcoholic shoemaker with such little status that he seemed unlikely to even get one wife, let alone the three or more that designated a man of standing.

Colleen Chen

#23. I know,' I said, thinking about the trip my mother had wanted me to take, and the trip we'd ended up taking, and how much better ours had been.

Morgan Matson

#24. Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be Italian and not stodgy enough to be German. We arrive at his Englishry by pure elimination.

Anthony Burgess

#25. No, I'm pretty sure no one wants to explain last night's oh-so-fucking-fun events to this stodgy-as-hell crowd, who all look like they took a major pill of stick-up-their-asses.

Scarlett Dawn

#26. VI was predecessor to hundreds of word processing systems. By now, Unix folks see it as a bit stodgy - it hasn't the versatility of Gnu-Emacs, nor the friendliness of more modern editors. Despite that, VI shows up on every Unix system.

Clifford Stoll

#27. You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind
Standing on that windswept hillside
Listening to the church bells chime
Listen to the church bells chime
In that magic time ...

Van Morrison

#28. The dash helps to indicate that the two thoughts are intimately related, and it's less stodgy than a semicolon, which would have performed the same function (and who talks in semicolons?).

Bill Walsh

#29. Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.

Clare B. Dunkle

#30. (Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined a foe of stodgy baseball, lack of hustle and slipshod practices and so powerful an advocate of the unexpected.

Nellie Fox