Stemmers Quotes & Sayings

Words are but the signs of ideas. — Samuel Johnson

In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is. — Sherman Alexie

The proclamation and witness of the Gospel are the first service that Christians can offer every person and the whole human race, as they are called to communicate to all the love of God, who manifested himself fully in the only Redeemer of the world, Jesus Christ. — Pope Benedict XVI

You're smart and witty. You're so talented and really have an eye for advertising. Trust in that, and trust in the person who interviewed you today to see that about you. — Victoria Michaels

For heroes do not make history - that is the historian's job - but, passive, let themselves be borne along, swept up to the crest of the tide of change, of chance, of war. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Live gratefully. Express it constantly. Expect abundance. — Pooja Ruprell

You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around. — Stevie Ray Vaughan

I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary. — George Carlin

Education is an organic necessity of a human being. — Horace Mann

Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere! — Rose Pastor Stokes

In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad. — Claire Tomalin

Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five
thousand Chinamen if I could save my brother from
anything. Well I was very fond of my brother and I
could completely imagine his suffering and I replied
that five thousand Chinamen was something I could not
imagine and so it was not interesting. One has to
remember that about imagination, that is when the
world gets dull when everybody does not know what
they can or what they cannot really imagine. — Gertrude Stein

I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into. — Cassie Steele