Stimmler Pasadena Quotes & Sayings

Great occasions often stimulate a person to do something great, but that tells nothing of his or her real character. Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty. — Abhijit Naskar

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise. — Amos Bronson Alcott

The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. — Virginia Woolf

It would have been unthinkable for anyone on the block not to know the names of the players, their batting averages, and the win-loss record of the pitchers. We knew who they were playing on a given day, where they were playing, who was pitching, and how many games out of first place they might be. We also knew as much information about their personal lives as the baseball cards we flipped and traded provided. Most of our contact with the Dodgers came through the radio and TV play-by-play commentary of Red Barber and Vin Scully, who were as familiar to us as the players. Ebbets — Bernie Sanders

Even the idiot may have a message for us — Henry Miller

Every novel has at least three stories. Of course, there's story in its pages. But then there's the story of its writing. And there's also the story of its reaching, or not reaching, the bigger world of its readers. — Ian R. MacLeod

People who have to announce that they are trustworthy deserve to be lied to. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I am as my creator made me. — Neil Gaiman

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set. — Tom Stoppard

Some to business, some to pleasure take, But every woman is at heart a rake.'" "The — Wilkie Collins