Beauty is wherever you find it, and Beast is there when you need to defend it.
STACEY JAY Soul-mated pairs are becoming an endangered species.
STACEY JAY We're soul mates," he says. "We are forever. Our kind of love cannot be destroyed.
STACEY JAY And I know that I am. I am his moon, and his brightly shining star. I am his life, his heart. I am a...
STACEY JAY Real love has little to do with falling. It's a climb up the rocky face of a mountain, hard work, an...
STACEY JAY Love doesn't want people to stay ignorant and frightened. Love doesn't value obedience over all else...
STACEY JAY Never underestimate the allure of the Goodwill.
STACEY JAY But maybe that isn't possible. Maybe the mind of the majority is always the healthy mind, simply by ...
STACEY JAY No. I don't care if I'm not the first." His head tilts and his lips move within a whisper of mine. "...
STACEY JAY Is that love, do you think?" he asks, sounding genuinely curious. "Being crazy about someone no matt...
STACEY JAY And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY I don't know if my faith stems from what I'd call unconditional love, but the energy certain...
STACEY D'ERASMO I would celebrate the Holy Communion service in my pajamas if I thought it would help someone to fin...
NICHOLAS STACEY Look, Jenna, it isn't like Wayne is perfect. Our crew is a bunch of overgrown misfit children. Wayne...
STACEY BALLIS I'll always remember this as the night that Michael Jordan and I combined for 70 points.
STACEY KING A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way...
STACEY CHARTER Readers, like writers, are essentially amoral. Arm's length will never do. We want to get closer...
STACEY D'ERASMO Royalty mostly seem like members of some anachronistic faith, like the Amish, peculiar in gilded bug...
STACEY D'ERASMO I was influenced by big, strong voices - writers like Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles; ...
STACEY D'ERASMO You can conclude from the glossy surfaces of 'The L Word' that L stands for latte or Lexus a...
STACEY D'ERASMO Everyone I went to school with went to university, or took a year off and then went, and that was th...
STACEY FARBER I think that 'Degrassi' really challenged its actors. I was on it for seven years, and it wa...
STACEY FARBER I always enjoyed school, and I enjoyed being focused on learning - and I know that sounds nerdy, but...
STACEY FARBER When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of col...
STACEY FARBER I remember there were days when - and this is kind of gross - I would sleep in my uniform to save ti...
STACEY FARBER I think it's cool to be smart, and I think it's sexy to be smart.
STACEY FARBER I don't get celebrities not understanding that the paparazzi are doing their job.
STACEY DASH The truth is, it's really only okay to be yourself if that self is within an accepted range of 'norm...
STACEY KADE Music is quicksilver, gossamer; careers are measured in butterfly lifetimes.
STACEY D'ERASMO By the time Herman appears at six thirty, I've done a double batch of my version of an upgraded pinw...
STACEY BALLIS A performer needs and craves a live audience.
STACEY D'ERASMO Be serious. You've got to do the job you were hired to do well, but there's always more you ...
STACEY SNIDER What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this...
STACEY SNIDER What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg ...
STACEY D'ERASMO 'The Girls,' by Lori Lansens, is a ballad, a melancholy song of two very strange, enchanted ...
STACEY D'ERASMO Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the...
STACEY CHARTER Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. ...
STACEY CHARTER It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with...
STACEY CHARTER It is not fair to put a gravel pit next to someone's home, and that is what Measure 37 allows. The g...
BOB STACEY Tier 1 is a pretty big jump. The biggest difference is the speed.
BOB STACEY The difference was the speed. It will take some time for them to catch up. I complimented (Phillips)...
BOB STACEY I just got a guy on a Harley-Davidson (who) pulled over and gave us five bucks. I'm just amazed.
BOB STACEY Measure 37 was not a vote on land use. Measure 37 was a clear message that government needs to treat...
BOB STACEY We need to be united, and we all need to understand that we're all capable of achieving the Amer...
STACEY DASH On a deeper level, there's a level of privacy that I need in order to work, and if there's b...
STACEY D'ERASMO As lightly toned by reality as the women on 'Sex and the City,' the bold, soigne characters ...
STACEY D'ERASMO " Life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns. Hop off the straight and narrow whenever yo...
STACEY CHARTER There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:This is me damn it! I look the way I look, th...
STACEY CHARTER I went to a failing school, and by the grace of God, my mother was able to put me into private schoo...
STACEY DASH A high heel elongates the leg and inevitably flatters every figure.
STACEY BENDET I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.
STACEY BENDET My mother always told me to never limit my dreams to our economic situation. Therefore, I have alway...
STACEY HILL Emotional grandeur, rendered in the vernacular, has been Mona Simpson's forte. In her novels, &#...
STACEY D'ERASMO This won't stop the Microsoft encroachment.
STACEY QUANDT The knot of intimacy at the center of 'Ten Thousand Saints' is the friendship between Teddy ...
STACEY D'ERASMO once you become a cheat its hard to stop but when you found that one person that means the most to y...
STACEY EVANS I want coffee to taste of coffee. Maybe a little cream and sugar. I do not want coffee that tastes o...
STACEY BALLIS I have been all over the world cooking and eating and training under extraordinary chefs. And the tw...
STACEY BALLIS Shelley Jackson's 'Half Life' is the textual equivalent of an installation, a multivocal...
STACEY D'ERASMO Writers and musicians are very similar in that the chances of making a life in either field are so i...
STACEY D'ERASMO Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everyth...
STACEY LEE In her previous novels, Maggie O'Farrell has often measured the distance between intimates and t...
STACEY D'ERASMO Ever since I was a little girl, I loved to make things. I always made dresses for my Barbie dolls. W...
STACEY BENDET Over the years I've done everything from small organization units in condo closets with sliding door...
STACEY BALLIS Caroline has laid out a beautiful spread, which is a combination of some of my favorite things that ...
STACEY BALLIS And if you can't find it, you can't use it. Project Fusion lets you organize, personalize and social...
STACEY LUND When I feel myself slipping to the darkness of my past, I’ll close my eyes and remember this. Reme...
STACEY TROMBLEY I’m not the damsel in distress. I’m the villain. It’s only a matter of time before he realizes...
STACEY TROMBLEY At least I graduated," he muttered, stabbing the key in and unlocking the door.
I sucked in a ...
STACEY KADE What happened to you?" she asked.
"Ben was feeling artistic. Wanted to rearrange my face.
STACEY KADE Nice. I like a little desperation in
a guy. It builds character.
STACEY KADE I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the ...
STACEY BENDET She was grunting and getting frustrated with her team.
STACEY HANBURRY She isn't the kind of girl that makes you wonder why she doesn't have someone, you just know that th...
STACEY BALLIS This team knows their job is to score runs and win every inning. Whoever wins the most innings usual...
STACEY JOHNSON We finessed those a little to what Alfred had documented and what the curator had listed.
STACEY BALSLEY The songs in 'Wonderland' don't have a melodic life for me - I'm not a musical perso...
STACEY D'ERASMO The spirits of Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld and Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebbing waft through...
STACEY D'ERASMO One of the many pleasures of 'Versailles' is the way in which it seems to emanate not only f...
STACEY D'ERASMO The author is writing about the people within the Mercury series. They are two different perspective...
CRAIG STACEY I SMILE BECAUSE I REFUSE 2 FROWN!
STACEY ADAM He just can't wait. He's like a kid in a candy store.
STACEY TEARNE Being a compulsive overeater is no different from being an alcoholic or drug addict. The only differ...
STACEY BALLIS It was actually really empowering.
STACEY SIMCIK Why do we, as women, accept the crumbs thrown our way when we know in our hearts that we deserve the...
STACEY CHARTER What is life but a grand adventure, if you choose to LIVE it? Every chance meeting, every lover, eve...
STACEY CHARTER Real beauty doesn't need to starve itself. Real strength doesn't need to be violent. Real intelligen...
STACEY CHARTER " I'd rather try to see the good in everyone, And be disappointed every now and then, Than to see on...
STACEY CHARTER Jack was the kind of guy you could take into any situation and he would figure out how to fit in. Wa...
STACEY BALLIS I feed Volnay, who eats in her unusual way, delicately removing one piece of kibble at a time from h...
STACEY BALLIS I cooked with so many of the greats: Tom Colicchio, Eric Ripert, Wylie Dufresne, Grant Achatz. Rick ...
STACEY BALLIS Making dinner for Wayne is either the easiest thing or the hardest thing on the planet, depending on...
STACEY BALLIS Alice offers a variety of sensory experiences. It's one of the most rich exhibits we have.
STACEY SWIGART We've scouted Central Catholic twice and they've changed their system from last season. They've move...
STACEY REED I told them it was minor surgery. When I was out for two weeks, they didn't know why.
STACEY HALLAHAN Not only do we want to continue it, but we want to continue to reinvent ourselves in our space. We h...
CRAIG STACEY existence is what people defend while searching for a possible fix. Living by the commercials and me...
STACEY CHARTER I think we're well-prepared for the worst possible situation. We're expecting some icy roads in the ...
STACEY STEGMAN Munich. If you're on either side in an extremist way on the issue of the source of the Middle East c...
STACEY SNIDER If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing!
STACEY BROWN That's something to build on. I've been talking to the kids about the second round of the conference...
STACEY ALSTON The kids did fight hard, they didn't do a bad job swinging the bats. I wish we would have a few more...
STACEY ALSTON We've been doing that all year, bringing Eric in late ... letting him shut them down, kind of like h...
STACEY ALSTON I was thinking about stealing, but we had no outs and if (pinch-runner Donnell Allen) gets thrown ou...
STACEY ALSTON There's no excuse, we practice here everyday at the same time of day. I don't know, that's the bigge...
STACEY ALSTON Marie Eve, Stephanie and Aleksandra are rising stars and have all earned the right to represent Cana...
STACEY ALLASTER We have two new stadiums, we have solid sponsors in Rogers, the National Bank and American Express, ...
STACEY ALLASTER The mandatory-play premier group has been approved [by the WTA Tour board].
STACEY ALLASTER Larry has also promoted David Shoemaker, who was their chief legal officer, to chief operating offic...
STACEY ALLASTER We're not going to create (the right) system and culture for the current superstars, but we are buil...
STACEY ALLASTER She transcends the sport. She transcends the sport, and growth in our sport is not coming from tenni...
STACEY ALLASTER Marie Eve, Stephanie and Aleksandra are rising stars and have all earned the right to represent Cana...
STACEY ALLASTER " Life can be like a roller coaster...And just when you think you've had enough,and your ready to ge...
STACEY CHARTER We just didn't shoot the ball well at all tonight. It was awful. Those are shots that we hit 90 perc...
JOE STACEY I'm always talking about I use to .. I still am ..
STACEY DAVIS He could do this. He'd survived boot camp. He'd survived combat and the harsh weather of Afghanistan...
SHANNON STACEY We're so known for our party dresses and evening looks, I wanted to focus on what the Alice + Ol...
STACEY BENDET Carroll was a Hank Williams kind of guy.
SARAH STACEY Life is also about balance, just the way recipes are about balance. When your recipe isn't balanced,...
STACEY BALLIS Have you ever loved someone so intensely, so entirely ,that it's painful to be apart from them? I'm ...
STACEY FIELD In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic...
STACEY D'ERASMO In each medium - popular music, literature, and visual art, respectively - the woman has broken form...
STACEY D'ERASMO If it's frozen when you start, then it's kind of hard.
STACEY BELT The canopy of trees has grown up since the 1930s.
STACEY BALSLEY Between culinary school, a year and a half of apprentice stages all over the world in amazing restau...
STACEY BALLIS If you can find somebody as talented as Joss who also brings with him a fan base, that's something y...
STACEY SNIDER With the heady scent of yeast in the air, it quickly becomes clear that Langer's hasn't changed at a...
STACEY BALLIS Lois and Eloise and Benji have been cooking from the book all week in preparation, making everything...
STACEY BALLIS Yeah, just what I needed, a massive three-day Hostess binge, followed by a week of trying to replica...
STACEY BALLIS Three square tiers of hazelnut cake filled with caramel mousse and sliced poached pears, sealed with...
STACEY BALLIS There will be a cauldron of spiced hot cider, and pumpkin shortbread fingers with caramel and fudge ...
STACEY BALLIS I think back to the parties Aimee and I planned, and how all those tuxedos and ball gowns weren't re...
STACEY BALLIS You can't do everything, at the same time, always, and forever. But if you look at your life and...
STACEY SNIDER The much-lauded visual artist Roni Horn got her Master's in Sculpture from Yale in the Seventies...
STACEY D'ERASMO All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weavin...
STACEY D'ERASMO The accident rate on this section of highway is very competitive with similar highways in the metro ...
STACEY STEGMAN The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way e...
STACEY D'ERASMO If we are indeed nostalgic for the weight of clock time, it is worth remembering that the standardiz...
STACEY D'ERASMO Do you have any idea who Erin was kissing?"
"Yeah, so we'll brush out teeth really, really thor...
STACEY KADE I couldn't loose somebody else like that, without even the chance to say good-bye. Not again. Not he...
STACEY KADE There is no such thing as a natural fit between form and content. Seamless elegance would be tantamo...
STACEY D'ERASMO It said something about how much the soul or spirit in charge mattered.
STACEY KADE We wanted to do French toast for the brunch, but acknowledged that it is a dangerous item for a spec...
STACEY BALLIS Milk and cookies, anyone?" Elliot reappears from the kitchen with a large platter of chocolate chip ...
STACEY BALLIS He comes over and lifts the foil off the pan. I can see that it is golden and crispy, and the scent ...
STACEY BALLIS The nice thing about this menu is that it will keep fine for tomorrow. I decide to finish the potato...
STACEY BALLIS In ten minutes I am at the massive Whole Foods on Kingsbury. I go to the salad bar. I fill container...
STACEY BALLIS I make the creamed spinach, as close as I can get to the memories I have of eating it at Lawry's Ste...
STACEY BALLIS Iceberg wedges with a homemade Thousand Island dressing and bacon bits. Prime rib, slow roasted in a...
STACEY BALLIS So tonight we are just seven. Seven people, and twelve pounds of pork. I pick a piece of the insanel...
STACEY BALLIS This year I am doing praline pecans, an old favorite family favorite, easy and addictive. And a fest...
STACEY BALLIS We shared deep passions. John Hughes movies, the New Romantics, the Chicago Bears. We both loved chi...
STACEY BALLIS My daughters-in-law, you know..." she shrugs her rounded shoulders resignedly. "They are such sweet ...
STACEY BALLIS Sweet mother of crap, what the hell has he done to my house?” Why did you never tell him to stop d...
STACEY BALLIS On the coffee table is a bottle of Madeira, a plate of dark chocolates, a bowl of tiny tangerines. H...
STACEY BALLIS He opens a lower cabinet to reveal that it is a mini fridge, and brings over two plates that each ha...
STACEY BALLIS Elliot, that was amazing." The meal has been spectacular. We started with a salad of fennel, golden ...
STACEY BALLIS I hacked an old Crock-Pot and turned it into a sous vide machine, and did a turkey breast, and then ...
STACEY BALLIS Andrea is coming to pick me up in about thirty minutes to head to her folks' house for Thanksgiving....
STACEY BALLIS You are going to have to take the rest of these croissants to work with you, I cannot be trusted alo...
STACEY BALLIS I love a lounging pajama."
You also love a marabou mule slipper and a satin robe with a train.<...
STACEY BALLIS So," he explains. "Take the piece of bread, dip it in the olive oil and then in the spice and nut mi...
STACEY BALLIS Brian orders us both Grandpa's Turtle Sundaes, a classic with vanilla ice cream, hot fudge, caramel ...
STACEY BALLIS Stirring the pastry cream and putting it in the blast chiller in the island, a total chefly indulgen...
STACEY BALLIS Yep," I say, cutting a large slice of the Dutch Baby pancake and sliding it onto her plate along wit...
STACEY BALLIS There are food stations around the room, each representing one of the main characters. The Black Wid...
STACEY BALLIS Herman and I have been doing a lot of talking about the cake the past couple of days, and we think w...
STACEY BALLIS Chicken and vegetable pakoras, chickpea fritters with delicate spices. Aloo samosas filled with spic...
STACEY BALLIS Time to cut the cake, newlyweds." Caroline ushers us over to the sweet little two-tier cake, round a...
STACEY BALLIS The only way the gender divide affected me was the social things the younger guy executives could do...
STACEY SNIDER The natural evolution of a well-educated populus is integration. And this is not political; it's...
STACEY DASH [The Asia Pacific region isn't the only hotbed of Linux activity. The Peruvian congress is consideri...
STACEY QUANDT We as Eagles have come to know that without our children, there is no future. Being a mother I thank...
STACEY PURSLEY As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride,...
STACEY D'ERASMO The trouble with rules, though, is that you'll always be tempted to break one- for the right reasons...
STACEY KADE I look over the recipe again. It sounds very simple. You boil some rice in water like pasta, I can d...
STACEY BALLIS I grab the nonstick skillet, put it on the stove, and fetch four slices of bread from the breadbox. ...
STACEY BALLIS My books - I kid you not - are very often shelved between DeLillo and de Sade. Which not only comple...
STACEY D'ERASMO 'The Girls' tells the story of Rose and Ruby Darlen, who are not only literally but spiritua...
STACEY D'ERASMO Whether you're a bride or a birthday boy, your options are much the same. Cake comes in chocolate, y...
STACEY BALLIS I looked down at my shoes. I hated it when I opened my mouth and my crazy fell out.
STACEY ROURKE Liam's hash brown casserole can only be described as so over-the-top ridiculous I fear Paula Deen is...
STACEY BALLIS Can I offer you a slice of this amazing caramelized white chocolate apricot brioche made by my favor...
STACEY BALLIS RJ gets to work in the kitchen on the dinner he is preparing, allowing me to sous chef. He seasons d...
STACEY BALLIS I didn't know if it was possible to kick someone hard enough to knock the cocky out of 'em, but for ...
STACEY ROURKE I couldn't deny it, I was smitten. I was in deep smit.
STACEY ROURKE What is it?"
"It's a Thermomix."
"That crazy cooking-blender thing you were telling me abo...
STACEY BALLIS I've been developing killer updated versions of things like Black Forest cake, now with bittersweet ...
STACEY BALLIS Most tourists, having done some research on Chicago delicacies, order their Italian beef sandwiches ...
STACEY BALLIS I pick up my teaspoon and take a small bite, and am transported. The cake is nutty and moist, the cr...
STACEY BALLIS The cake is pretty simple; they didn't want anything too fancy. Two tiers. The bottom is the Frango ...
STACEY BALLIS Naomi at TipsyCake is doing the cake, and it should be amazing."
"Mmm, cake. What kind of cake?...
STACEY BALLIS Caroline made a steamed fig pudding with brandy hard sauce. Hedy and Jacob brought a platter of dens...
STACEY BALLIS Relax, princess. If your prince arrives, I'll vacate. Just keeping you company. Besides, he should k...
STACEY BALLIS It was ugly, but we'll take it. I didn't think we played very well tonight, and we were terrible at ...
JOE STACEY I'll be honest, there's not a team left on our schedule that I don't think we're capable of beating....
JOE STACEY For whatever reason, we've played so much better on the road. I really can't explain it. It bothers ...
JOE STACEY It's (the quick conference start) been great. We're thrilled about it. But there's still a lot of ba...
JOE STACEY Well we were going to let them take the last shot. We were not going to man-to-man them because they...
JOE STACEY (Ames Parks and Recreation) wanted to try a tournament first, and if that goes over well, maybe they...
STACEY CARLSON