Stupke Quotes & Sayings

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected. — Paul Auster

Because of her hospital schedule, she was either not around at all, or sleeping, or around a lot. — Carol Anshaw

I can't wear this. I need something else. Something that shouts 'Sophisticated! Mature! Bleedin' Badass! — Rea Lidde

I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes. — Don DeLillo

The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status. — Paul Goodman

I wanted to meet the monster.
Why go down if you can go up? — Ellen Hopkins

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials. — John Henrik Clarke

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something. — Anthony Mackie

I'm not saying that women don't think about sex also. I'm saying that women are capable, for at least brief periods of time, of not thinking about sex, and that most guys are not. — Dave Barry

People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast. — Sherwood Anderson

Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline. — Shaun McNiff

If you meet a girl who has slept with 100 guys, you will think something of her you wouldn't think of a guy who slept with 100 girls. — Lizzy Caplan

If you can sing, you never lose your voice. If you don't know how to sing, your voice goes away because you sing from your throat. — Daryl Hall

The ends-"
"Justify the means. That's what she said. What is that, your family motto or something?"
Lara stilled, her knuckles white. "Would you like to know about my family, Sophie?"
Pressing myself back against my chair, I shook my head. "I think I know enough about your family, thanks."
"You don't know anything," Lara said, and then she flicked her fingers in my direction.
At first, nothing happened, and I wondered if all she'd done was give me the witch version of her middle finger. — Rachel Hawkins

Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it. — Saadi