Stepankova Quotes & Sayings

All the women knitted. They knitted worthless things; but, the mechanical work was a mechanical substitute for eating and drinking; the hands moved for the jaws and the digestive apparatus: if the bony fingers had been still, the stomachs would have been more famine-pinched. — Charles Dickens

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything. — Kurt Vonnegut

What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated. — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal. — Willard Scott

Before Dwayne entered his inner office, he read one of many comical signs which Francine had put up on the wall in order to amuse people, to remind them of what they so easily forgot: that people didn't have to be serious all the time. — Kurt Vonnegut

Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get. — Josh McDowell

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container. — Nathan Myhrvold

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all; but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing. — Bob Proctor

Divine was metamorphosed into one of those monsters that are painted on walls, for a customer murmured a magic word: 'homoseckshual — Jean Genet

Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories. — Benjamin Netanyahu

It's about quieting your mind and getting into certain states where everything outside of you doesn't matter in that moment. There are so many things telling you that you can't do something, but you take those thoughts captive, take power over them and change them. — Russell Okung