Some Say The Stig Quotes & Sayings

Life expects of you duties which appear repugnant to you. You must now know that the most important thing is not duties but what permits you to be someone good and just. There are many who will say to you that this is a piece of asocial advice, but you only have to reply to them: When the forms of society are so hard and hostile to life, it is more important to be asocial than inhuman — Stig Dagerman

Another example of how the sense of the self has been disintegrating in our day can be seen when we consider humor and laughter. It is not generally realized how closely one's sense of humor is connected with one's sense of selfhood. Humor normally should have the function of preserving the sense of self. It is an expression of our uniquely human capacity to experience ourselves as subjects who are not swallowed up in the objective situation. It is the healthy way of feeling a "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective. One cannot laugh when in an anxiety panic, for then one is swallowed up, one has lost the distinction between himself as subject and the objective world around him. — Rollo May

Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his ear wax tastes like Turkish Delight. All we know is he's called the Stig. — Jeremy Clarkson

Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves. All we know is he's called the Stig. — Jeremy Clarkson

Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me. — Max Beerbohm

Play is my Way. Fun is my destiny. Love and joy are my religion. — Victor Shamas

I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they say it's the ultimate, but I can't even wish for that. I don't even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence. — Jhonen Vasquez

We're all just a decision or two away from destroying the relationships that are most important to us and the people we love. And most of the time, we never even know it. — Lauren Miller

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it. — Audrey Tautou

You're never altogether unhappy. — Albert Camus

Seeing is of course very much a matter of verbalization. Unless I call my attention to what passes before my eyes, I simply won't see it. It is, as Ruskin says, 'not merely unnoticed, but in the full, clear sense of the word, unseen.' ... I have to say the words, describe what I'm seeing ... But if I want to notice the lesser cataclysms of valley life, I have to maintain in my head a running description of the present. — Annie Dillard

Every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him. — A.W. Tozer

He had ridden through the night, without rest and without sleep, for this. It ought, surely, to give someone a moment of wry amusement. He understood - but then he had always understood - how Richard had felt at Philorth. — Dorothy Dunnett

As I pass by him, I feel a crackle of tension between us. A slow heat begins its way into my cheeks, mirroring the flush in Grey's, and I realize that I hadn't been the only one acutely aware of his nakedness in the shower. — Carrie Ryan

I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea. — Robert Doisneau

The child I was is the only child I really know.' That's it. I can still feel what it was like to be that child of the 1940s from inside; I am still the same mixture of insecurity and determination, shyness and arrogance, curiosity and fear. I have the same talent she had; the same imagination. I write for her, for that child, and so it is true when I say I write for myself. — Susan Cooper

Some say his droppings have been found as far north as York, and that he has a full size tattoo of his face, on his face. All we know is he's called the Stig. — Jeremy Clarkson

Earth is crammed with Heaven. — Emily Dickinson

I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible. — Parker Stevenson