Stephanides Brothers Quotes & Sayings

A divine purpose, a determined spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

High standards generally
about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else
far from being snobbish, are required to maintain decency in life. — Joseph Epstein

Wishes are sometimes just stories that have nowhere to go. — Yvette Christianse

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century — Max Beerbohm

John cursed himself. Or rather, he
cursed the past version of himself for so
thoughtlessly screwing over the current
version of himself. — David Wong

Can't we just go in a dark corner like normal people who need to hide from highly trained evil killers?" she said.
"What, and let everyone imagine all the delightful things two jinn can do in the dark?"
"You're unbelievable."
"Thank you. — Heather Demetrios

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting. — Brian Tracy

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me. — Andrew Young

How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could? — David Levithan

I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or twenty I thought maybe I would try to become a film director. The reason I didn't do it was because I felt I didn't have the right personality. At that time in my life, I was mortally shy. — Jonathan Lethem

Change of ministers amounts to nothing. One goes out, another comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagances are pursued. It signifies not who is minister. The defect lies in the system. The foundation and superstructure of the government is bad. Prop it as you please, it continually sinks and ever will. — Thomas Paine

On the one hand we can't be alone, people like us; on the other we can't stand company. We can't stand male company, which bores us to death, or female company either. I gave up male company for years because it's totally unprofitable, and female company gets on my nerves in no time. — Thomas Bernhard

People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with. — Rachel Kushner