John Steptoe Quotes & Sayings

You're the luckiest person in the entire world if you know what you really want to do, which I was lucky enough to know when I was very young. And you're the luckiest person in the world if you can then make a living out of it. — Andrew Lloyd Webber

Don't assume you're always going to be understood. I wrote in a column that one should put a cup of liquid in the cavity of a turkey when roasting it. Someone wrote me that 'the turkey tasted great, but the plastic cup melted. — Heloise

Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak. — Henry Adams

Satan will make your own principles and inclinations to betray you. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to! — Rik Mayall

I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer. — Josh Silver

She could tell when a woman was pregnant - even before the woman herself might know -just from the way she smelled: a combinaison of brown sugar and Stargazer lilies. Happiness had a pungent scent, like the sourest lime or lemon. Broken hearts smelled surprisingly sweet. Sadness filled the air with a salty, sea-like redolence; death smelled like sadness. — Leslye Walton

I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at - just walking around Williamsburg, for example - is a great opportunity for ideas. I've been here before, I've seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they've attached a light to a house. — Martha Stewart

The sovereignty of God deals not only with abstract principles but with real lines of authority. God has the right
to issue commands, to impose obligations, and to bind the consciences of men. — R.C. Sproul

To be saved is to believe in one's own courage. — Marty Rubin