Stephen Sauvestre Quotes & Sayings

There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation! — Stanislaw Leszczynski

I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in a short space. I like Lorrie Moore. Amy Hempel. Tim O'Brien. Raymond Carver. All the heartbreakers. — Laurel Nakadate

Light blinds some and gives sight to others. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera. — Jeffrey Wright

Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world. — Catherynne M Valente

We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" They're going "You can't claim us, we live here! Five hundred million of us!" "Do you have a flag ... ? "No ... " "Well, if you don't have a flag, then you can't have a country. Those are the rules ... that I just made up! — Eddie Izzard

People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems. — Dolly Parton

Roderick Morgenstern, who Magnus thought truly deserved to have a name that sounded like a goat chewing gravel, stood up happily to continue his speech. — Cassandra Clare

In the year 1819 an act of Parliament was proposed limiting the labor of children nine years of age to four-teen hours a day. This would seem to have been a reasonable provision, likely to have won the approval of Christ; yet the bill was violently opposed by Christian employers, backed by Christian clergymen. It was interfering with freedom of contract, and therefore with the will of Providence; it was anathema to an established Church, whose function was in 1819, as it is in 1918, and was in 1918 B. C., to teach the divine origin and sanction of the prevailing economic order. — Upton Sinclair

I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps. — Mickey Rourke

Oblivion. It is what I am always looking for. — Bethany Griffin