Stokowski Stan Quotes

#1. It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again.

Robert Gottlieb

#2. Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door.

Sylvain Tesson

#3. It was a good day to die, but nobody did.

Stephen Graham Jones

#4. Ravic emptied his glass. He got a package of cigarettes out of his pocket, took one out and lit it. His hands were not yet steady. He flung the match on the floor and ordered another calvados. That face, that smiling face which he thought he had just seen again - he must have been

Erich Maria Remarque

#5. I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#6. Nine people can't make a baby in a month.

Fred Brooks

#7. Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

Stephen Breyer

#8. There was an embrace in death.

Virginia Woolf

#9. By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

John Shelby Spong

#11. There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

Christian Louboutin

#12. If you are going into any manufacturing establishment, don't go there by reason of any influence you may have. Start upon your own merits, and start in some lowly position, no matter what it is. Be a laborer, if you will. I don't know but that is the best way to start.

Charles M. Schwab

#13. Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and these are trickier: you watch yourself in disbelief.

Jess Walter

#14. I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

Arlen Specter

#15. I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.

Orlando Bloom