Stalky Quotes & Sayings

And if it can't be fun, what's the point? — Donald J. Trump

Stalky,' in their school vocabulary, meant clever, well-considered and wily, as applied to plans of action; and 'stalkiness' was the one virtue Corkran toiled after. — Rudyard Kipling

I don't have to worry about how my movies sell because I'm not the guy in front. — John Slattery

Memory is the medium of the must-have-been. — Julian Jaynes

But it's hard, when you're at a loose end yourself, to be happy for others, — Zadie Smith

Islanders too
are for sculpting. — Seamus Heaney

I've never done any cattle-liftin', but it seems to me-e-e that one might just as well be stalky about a thing as not. — Rudyard Kipling

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world. — Charles Hodge

Mad! Quite mad!' said Stalky to the visitors, as one exhibiting strange beasts. 'Beetle reads an ass called Brownin', and M'Turk reads an ass called Ruskin; and-'
'Ruskin isn't an ass,' said M'Turk. 'He's almost as good as the Opium-Eater. He says we're "children of noble races, trained by surrounding art." That means me, and the way I decorated the study when you two badgers would have stuck up brackets and Christmas cards. Child of a noble race, trained by surrounding art, stop reading or I'll shove a pilchard down your neck! — Rudyard Kipling

He has oppressed Beetle, M'Turk, and me, privatim et seriatim, one by one, as he could catch us. But now he has insulted Number Five up in the music-room, and in the presence of these - these ossifers of the Ninety-third, wot look like hairdressers. Binjimin, we must make him cry "Capivi!"'
Stalky's reading did not include Browning or Ruskin. — Rudyard Kipling

Every time you fill an appointment, you make one man grateful and ten resentful. — Robert Harris

Pranayam is the right science of breathing where deep, regulated and rhythmic breathing is done along with mental purification. Its practice plays an important role not only in cure of physical ailments, but also for moral and spiritual progress. — Virchand Gandhi

All's taken away: my love and my power.
The body, thrown into city it hates,
Finds no joy in the sunlight. With every hour
The blood grows colder in my veins. — Anna Akhmatova

Many seeds had fallen in the stony places of his spirit, to spring luxuriantly up into stalky plants and wither again because they had no deepness of earth; many had been sown there and had died, since his mother scattered the seeds of the wild flowers — Aldous Huxley

Well-meanin' man. Did it all for the best." Stalky curled gracefully round the stair-rail. "Head in a drain-pipe. Full confession in the left boot. — Rudyard Kipling

You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash. — Bill Maher

Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable. — Kate Christensen

The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman. — Robert A. Heinlein

Simplicity is always a virtue. — Edward Abbey