Stephen Hillenburg Famous Quotes & Sayings

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink. — Duke Of Wellington

Develop an 'attitude of gratitude. — Brian Tracy

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change. — Albert Camus

I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking. — Walead Beshty

Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us. — Ace Frehley

I don't know'," he said. "Those three words from a willing soul are the start of a grand and magnificent voyage." And with that he began a discourse that lasted for several weeks, covering scene-setting, establishing conflict, plot twists, and first- and third-person narration. [ I learned in these rapid-fire mini-dissertations that like most literature lovers I would come to know, Henry was a book snob. He assumed that if a current author was popular and widely enjoyed, then he or she had no merit. He made a few exceptions, such as Kurt Vonnegut, although that was mostly because Vonnegut lived on Cape Cod and so he probably had some merits as a human being, if not as a writer.
I think that the way Henry saw it was that he was not being a snob. In fact I would venture that in his view of things, snobbery had nothing to do with it. Rather, it was a matter of standards. It was bout quality in the author's craftsmanship. — John William Tuohy

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? — Nelson Mandela

Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what you might call rapacious to a fault. The great flaming mouth to the thing is never in this world going to be stuff full. — Donald Barthelme

Jacob was simply a perpetually happy person, and he carried this happiness with him like an aura, sharing it with whoever was near him. Lika an earthbound sun, whenever someone was within his gravitational pull, Jacob warmed them. It was natural, a part of who he was. — Stephenie Meyer

No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government ... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident. — Paul Craig Roberts

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. — Don DeLillo

It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was. — William Faulkner

Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning. — Terry Goodkind

Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever. — Zadie Smith