Stony Brook University Quotes & Sayings

Family. Dorian had never really considered himself to be in an actual family. And certainly not now. If anyone found out about what had happened in that hallway yesterday, about the magic he might have, his father would kill him. He had a second son, after all. Families weren't exactly supposed to think like that, were they? — Sarah J. Maas

Nevada involved cattle, right? First of all, I thought the Lord owned the cattle on the thousand hills. What about the fact that even in early Scripture, the issue of water and forage rights is actually talked about by Abraham? — Matt Shea

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it. — Clive Owen

I think it shows that you are a confident person if you can walk up to a group of girls and just be able to talk to them sober. — Georgia Salpa

If everybody who was in the Forbes 400 said they were going to create 10,000 jobs, by my mathematics, that would be 4 million jobs. — William E. Conway Jr.

When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense. — Henry Reed

The secret of life is ... everything is out of control. — Ajahn Brahm

I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox. — Tom Waits

I was your typical struggling actress. I went to every audition, took a million acting, dancing and singing lessons and spent years wondering where my next meal was coming from. — Cassandra Peterson

My life is a constant struggle between what they want me to be, what I want me to be, and who I'm being instead. — Kyle Schmalenberg

When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major a long, long time ago. At Stony Brook. You had something to do with some state university school? — Richard Meltzer

The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners. — Mary McCarthy

As far as Martin [Luther] himself is concerned, O good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have we omitted that we might call him back from such errors? — Pope Leo X

People are vomiting unrealistically in movies, and something must be done about it. — Mary Roach

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied. — Robert Southey