Stanislaus Quotes & Sayings

Many MIDI files contain entire musical compositions. Because MIDI supports only 16 channels, however, no more than 16 different instruments can play at any time, and one of those is the key-based percussion instrument. — Charles Petzold

The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and swam to San Francisco handcuffed. That made national publicity. Then, there were three or four years where I would do more difficult feats. Another birthday I towed a thousand pound boat across the Golden Gate. On my 65th Birthday I towed 65 boats a mile and a half in Tokyo. On my 70th Birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it with my feet and hands tied a mile and a half in Long Beach ... My next Birthday I will be 93. I'm gonna tow my wife across the bathtub. — Jack LaLanne

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for. — Stanislaus I

As a young man, he was already rather pompous and full of himself, concerned with what he would write and with his early (and, later, perennial) hatred of Ireland and the Irish. When he had still written only a few poems, he asked his brother Stanislaus: "Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do? I mean that I am trying in my poems to give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread of daily life into something that has a permanent artistic life of its own ... for their mental, moral, and spiritual uplift." When he was older his comparisons may have been less eucharistic and more modest, but he was always convinced of the extreme importance of his work, even before it existed. — Javier Marias

Surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action. — Michel Foucault

One thing I love about God Almighty is that He works in mysterious ways.
Sometime He will tell you; "Stand still and I will do all the work for you."
Isn't He the one that can make all things possible. — Temitope Owosela

Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is as usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died. Then I know nothing more. — Erich Maria Remarque

There were at least four people who realized that Inspector Stanislaus Oates, only lately promoted to the Big Five, was being followed down High Holborn by the short, squat, shabby man who yet bore the elusive air of a forgotten culture about him. — Margery Allingham

I find it significant that most of the people who believe in just war have never fought in one; examples: Barack W. Bush and George H. Obama. — Michel Templet

I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years. — Steve Wozniak

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. — Jacques Maritain

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. — Stanislaus I

I've learnt that you never know what is around the corner, so it's best to enjoy the ride. — Cush Jumbo

I'm the way the truth and the life. Only through me you will go to the father. — Ayan Khan

It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root. — Paracelsus

I want eternity. I was born for greater things ... — Stanislaus Kostka

Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache - and often leaves a bitter taste — Rasheed Ogunlaru

There's not much of a follow-your-dreams kind of vibe in New Zealand or my family. — Melanie Lynskey

I said, in my new loud middle-aged-Jewish-woman voice. — Jesse Andrews