William Stephenson Quotes

#1. If it hadn't been for Bill Macdonald's book 'The True Intrepid,' I might never have found out about the women who went down to work in secret in New York for our own spymaster Sir William Stephenson in the Second World War.

Susanna Kearsley

#2. Zookeeper foible #1: Tendency to not equate fur and scale with fracture and scar.

Wendy Beck

#3. Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.

Ned Beauman

#4. If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

Robert Louis Stevenson

#5. This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.

William Stephenson

#6. I'm not playing your games. You were wrong." I crossed my arms over my chest. "You want to know what I've learned? I don't win by playing your games. I win by making you play mine.

Penelope Douglas

#7. I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.

Jerry Orbach

#8. Some religious practitioners make absolutist claims for their beliefs: I've no interest in doing this, nor do I have any interest in converting people, which is doubtless a relief to anyone who has feared finding me on their doorstep asking if they'd like to know more about Odin.

Liz Williams

#9. When people have so much for outsiders didn't it indicate a lack of inner intensity?

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them ...

Dorothy Parker

#11. You may be a redneck if ... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.

Jeff Foxworthy

#12. Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

George Carlin

#13. Inner mental technique is more important than the physical one.

Gichin Funakoshi

#14. With comedy, don't try to be funny. That's really helped me. Just say the lines as you would say them, interact with other characters, and try to make it as real as possible. It will come out funny.

Ariel Winter

#15. You might be an interested guy, an interested reported then I get to know you and then I know you're this also and you're this also and you may hide it in a certain way. That's what I love.

Josh Brolin

#16. We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.

William Stephenson

#17. The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose lives we affect.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#18. If you walk backwards, you will never stub your toe.

Harvey MacKay