Stinkum Quotes & Sayings

We live by faith and by the grace of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Makeup is the finishing touch, the final accessory. — Marc Jacobs

Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow. — Corliss Lamont

Indeed, today, more people than ever before see themselves as addicted or recovering from substance addiction: 1 in 10 American adults - more than 23 million people - said they'd kicked some type of drug or alcohol addiction in their lifetime, in a large national survey conducted in 2012. At least another 23 million currently suffer from some type of substance use disorder. That doesn't even count the millions who consider themselves addicted to or recovering from behaviors like sex, gambling, or online activities - nor does it include food-related disorders. With the 2013 declaration by the American Medical Association that obesity, like addiction, is a disease, up to one in three Americans may now qualify due to their body weight. — Maia Szalavitz

Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well. — Donna Tartt

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative. — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

You can't get someone to like something they aren't feeling. After you press play, there isn't anything you can do. — Aesop Rock

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired and how the world was to be understood. "Knowing" the facts took on a new meaning, for it did not imply that one understood implications, background, or connections. Telegraphic discourse permitted no time for historical perspectives and gave no priority to the qualitative. To the telegraph, intelligence meant knowing of lots of things, not knowing about them. — Neil Postman

But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac

After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others. — Julio Cortazar

Let God have His own cat. — Stephen King

Dorcas, you already reek like a Marseilles cat house; don't wheedle Mike for more stinkum. — Robert A. Heinlein

At Clochemerle, the greater number of the men put up with their wives, and the great majority of the women with their husbands. If this hardly amounted to adoration, in the majority of homes at any rate the men and women found each other very nearly endurable. — Gabriel Chevallier

A lot of novelists start late - Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But novel-writing is something else. It has to be learned, but it can't be taught. This bunkum and stinkum of college creative writing courses! The academics don't know that the only thing you can do for someone who wants to write is to buy him a typewriter. — James M. Cain

I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work. — Chen-Ning Yang

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant. — Oscar Wilde