Starker Quotes & Sayings

Jesus' kingdom calls us to another way, one that depends not on our performance but his own. We do not have to achieve but merely follow. — Philip Yancey

No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error. — William Carlos Williams

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.
[Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.] — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Let's just agree that I make my own decisions, and I will give you the respect you earn. Stop bossing me around. Also, stop holding my hand. Got it? — D.R. Graham

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results. — Nikola Tesla

A great artist is always before his time or behind it. — George Edward Moore

There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination. — Samuel Johnson

The salt hung on his spirit like a frost,
The dead brine melted in him like a dew
Of winter, until nothing of himself
Remained, except some starker, barer self
In a starker, barer world, in which the sun
Was not the sun because it never shone
With bland complaisance ... — Wallace Stevens

I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead. — Moby

Indeed, love is beautiful, yet at the same time, it is a cruel punishment, starker than death. — Khaddam Ahmed Khan

I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective. — Heidi Julavits

I was always obsessed with other performers doing their thing, and Britney 'Live in Las Vegas' from 2001 is my absolute favorite tour DVD of all time. — Betty Who

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things. — Rian Johnson

I often tell my students that you can't worry about the end of an improv scene because the end is not up to you. You just play as hard as you can until someone changes the scene. The scene has changedthe end is not up to us. — Mark Sutton

Up high, biology vanishes to reveal a world shaped by the starker forces of geology and meteorology, the bare bones of the earth wrapped in sky. — Rebecca Solnit