Stoicoi Quotes & Sayings

I would never again assume that any figure of authority automatically held any intellectual distinction. I am unafraid. — Morrissey

He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough. — Ray Bradbury

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face. — Gregory Maguire

That we could be like normal people and live happily ever after. That a love like ours, while brief and intense, would really come only once in a lifetime. — Yolanda Olson

To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard. — Theodore Roosevelt

There is a blueprint that young female singers seem to follow to make it, to make some noise when they first come out. And it's a hyper-sexualized persona. And the thing is that it works. And they do make noise. But the problem is if it's not authentic to you, then you're trapped in that persona. And you have to live that persona 24/7. — Gina Prince-Bythewood

It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSIT. Don't wait. Just ship. — Richie Norton

I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays. — Rob Urbinati

I love all the soft candy. I'm not a big fan of the hard candy though. — Anthony Dirrell

One damn sure thing! - he wasn't going to let them be rough with that Smith lad. He was a nuisance, granted, but he was a nice lad and rather appealing in a helpless, half-witted way. — Robert A. Heinlein

I was a theater actor back in the U.K., and you knew the whole play, so you could plot your storyline and character. And then I did 'Lost' and didn't know, and it was kind of frustrating, but I enjoyed it. — Henry Ian Cusick

rogrammers have "theories" about how software will behave when they change a line of code. Those theories rarely hold up to their first encounter with reality. Unsuccessful programmers could probably wax eloquent about how things should be different. Successful programmers just debug their code. Such a profession would quickly wean a person from idealistic notions about how to make a change. Successful programmers soon learn that it is more profitable to challenge their own thinking than to curse their computers when faced with unexpected results. There is no reason that communities could not formulate policy in a similar way. Two reasons that it is not is because of our still rudimentary understanding of system dynamics and our insistence on placing blame on individuals rather than trying to understand systems. — Ron Davison

We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave. — H.G.Wells