Stanley Stubbers Quotes & Sayings

I'm not jaded yet. I'm still at the point where, if someone comes up to me with great energy, I'm happy to meet them. — David Walton

This is bigger than a fart in a bathtub, you know. — John Marsden

I've been told I am the 'fittest fat person' in the world.How relaxed you are or how happy you are is all in the mind. — Rashmi Bansal

Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. — Nick Hornby

The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle. — Charlotte Bronte

the wages of empire is myopia — Natasha Trethewey

Now losers have this advantage, that though their own folk disapprove of them they are generally popular with everyone else. Having no work to chain them, they became public property. Just — Rabindranath Tagore

Circumstances shape who we are and who we become. I believe that. But I also believe we have choices. There are always choices. — Lisa Schroeder

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. — Quintilian

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. — Jack London

shot or worse. I needed a plan. So nobody had ever successfully escaped from Eisenberg Correctional. I was willing to bet they'd never had a prisoner like me, but then again, that was probably what every other would-be escapee thought before he ate a bullet. — Craig Schaefer

During his time with the French army, years before, one of the sergeants had explained to the younger mercenaries the trick of falling asleep the night before a battle. Make yourself comfortable, examine your conscience, and make a good Act of Contrition. Father Hugo says that in time of war, even if there is no priest to shrive you, your sins can be forgiven this way. Since you cannot commit sins while asleep
not even you, Simenon!
you will awake in a state of grace, ready to fall on the bastards. And with nothing to look forward to but victory or heaven
how can you be afraid. — Diana Gabaldon

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms. — Andre Breton

Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody. — Erskine Caldwell