Stubin Rose Quotes & Sayings

Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him. — Richard Brookhiser

We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear. — Arthur Frank Burns

You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside. — Julius Erving

He was a flame and she'd gotten burned, and the pain was terrible, yet it didn't make the fire any less alluring. — Jennifer Donnelly

She knew his secrets, knew him inside out.
Humans could never know each other that way.
They could never really get into another person's head.
All the talking in the world couldn't even prove that you and the other person saw the same colour red. — L.J.Smith

Many women talk a lot out of nervousness-which is something that men will often perceive as insecurity. — Sherry Argov

Since there are so many idiots out there, you may actually start to think you're crazy. You are not. They are idiots. — Lewis Black

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience. — J. Maarten Troost

Far too often, historians treat African Americans as if white segregationists had succeeded, as if blacks lived in their own separate world, physically and culturally removed from everyone else. In effect, African Americans become segregated for a second time in the telling of their history, easily marginalized from the main American story, relegated to the footnotes. — Shane White

Every night, the dreams pour down and engulf me. An hour, or a day, or even a whole week from my past spills out from the dark, wrapping up my mind in a cocoon of old sensations I thought I'd left behind. Like there's a time machine in my head, I'll be catapulted backward, uncomfortably squeezed into my younger skins like shoes that I've outgrown. — S. Harrison

Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology. — Ian Hacking

Deep thinking in the ranks leads only to drinking. — William Overgard

There is scarcely any great author in European literature, old or new, who has not distinguished himself in his treatment of the supernatural. In English literature, I believe there is no exception from the time of the Anglo-Saxon poets to Shakespeare, and from Shakespeare to our own day. And this introduces us to the consideration of a general and remarkable fact, a fact that I do not remember to have seen in any books, but which is of very great philosophical importance: there is something ghostly in all great art, whether of literature, music, sculpture, or architecture. It touches something within us that relates to infinity — Lafcadio Hearn

Every person has an incentive to deceive others for personal gain. But, until recently, no generation has practiced deception to the extent of our modern culture. Why? — Mike A. Robinson

Our becoming is done. — Donald Barthelme