Stupendously Quotes

#1. If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

Oswald Chambers

#2. It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

Benjamin Franklin

#3. We may love men and we may live with men, but some of them have said stupendously inaccurate things about us, our bodies, and our psyches.

Natalie Angier

#4. I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'.

Nile Rodgers

#5. My wife is so stupendously ugly it is easier to take her with me than to kiss her goodbye.

Max Miller

#6. America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.

Simon Hoggart

#7. O my Blessed God! let me climb up near to Him, and love, and long, and plead, and wrestle, and strech after Him, and for deliverence from the body of sin and death. Alas! my soul mourned to think i should ever lose sight of its Beloved again. O come, Lord Jesus, amen.

David Brainerd

#8. I'm a fucking razor-arsed starship, you maniac! I'm not male, female or anything else except stupendously smart and right now tuned to smite. I don't give a fuck about flattering you. The few and frankly not vitally important sentiments I have concerning you I can switch off like flicking a switch.

Iain M. Banks

#9. There was a lot of talk about old days and old times, the kind of chatter that's fabulously interesting to those who were there and stupendously boring to those who weren't.

Stephen King

#10. The West was not dull, it was stupendously dull, and when not dull it was murderous. A man could get killed without realizing it. There were unbelievable flash floods, weird snakes, and God Himself did not know what else, along with Indians descending as swiftly as the funnel of a tornado. On

Evan S. Connell

#11. I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better laugh a lot and enjoy ourselves. You either get a sense of humor going or you go under.

Mel Brooks

#12. Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

Diane Cilento

#13. Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.

Russell Baker

#14. Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored.

Deborah Harkness

#15. Love is never free ... It is the most expensive emotion we have.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#16. The best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important. Evil abhors those with the ability.

Terry Goodkind

#17. There is a kind of faith that is based on what you see, and there is another kind of faith that Abraham exercised.

Olusola A. Areogun

#18. This was a stupendously bad idea." William
"No bitching, Mr. Death I tried to get you to leave." Devyl
"Deeth! And I regret me decision, Captain. Seriously. Should have done it when you told me to."William

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#19. Each time we add an extra piece to the calculation, we find that the calculation time required to solve it doubles. Very soon the total time required becomes stupendously large, and even the fastest computers on Earth can be easily defeated. These are what we mean by 'hard' problems.5

Anonymous

#20. Anytime "mushed" accurately describes your architecture, you likely have a problem.

Robert Nystrom

#21. When I was younger, I was just always looking for this hot, so hot, like super-hot girl. And then, as I've gotten older, different things are really important to me, like just honesty. Being able to sit down and have a conversation.

Blake Griffin

#22. Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.

Charles Saatchi

#23. Squeezed back. Or, more likely, someone

Nora Roberts

#24. I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.

Mal Peet

#25. Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.

William Landay