The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it seems a funny word to me. The more you say it, the more it seems to detach from that person and become this sort of abstract thing: that you would set out to find a wife, that it would be an objective like buying a new car.
Stephen Merchant
Related It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER the strange thing is that when a word is well established as a swear word, it seems to lose its orig... GEORGE ORWELL You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT I've been called funny. I assume my wife thinks I'm funny. But generally, if you bumped into... ROBERT WEBB We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy,... LOU HOLTZ I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. PRINCE PHILIP I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Yes, it seems that things like that should go on in London... It is better taste somehow that a man ... BARBARA PYM I tell people I never got to hear Dylan Thomas read because my husband wouldn't let me, because ... CAROLYN KIZER I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a... BELLA ABZUG My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, th... ELI WALLACH I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean... LISA GLATT Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a stra... MICHELLE WILLIAMS What does it mean to care? Let me start by saying that the word care has become a very ambivalent wo... HENRI J.M. NOUWEN "The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more figh... DOUGLAS JERROLD I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost... SETH ROGEN You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co... THEO ENGELA What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL There's a deep underlying unpredictability to life that is thrilling. In China, my wife would sa... EVAN OSNOS Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about bein... WILLEM DAFOE The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act th... CHARLIE KAUFMAN Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, ... EDDIE MARSAN Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA My deal is that I pay more attention to whatever job I have than the relationships I have. Now, if I... GRACE SLICK My wife and I work out together almost every day. It's just a great way to spend time together. ... BILL RANCIC You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And i... JIM HENSON I do fear God, but I will also tell you that when a doctor diagnoses you and the word 'cancer... JOSEPH J. LHOTA there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to p... CHARLES BUKOWSKI When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE 15. “The love of money is the root of all evil” (1Timothy 6:10, KJV). That’s why Jesus issues ... JAMES C. DOBSON When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is th... LOUIS THEROUX I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down... LUIS GUZMAN My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love y... J. I. PACKER The thing I really love about this role, is that I have a very clear objective. I know my objective ... JAMES MARSTERS I dated a guy and he liked me but I didn't like him. I went through his wardrobe and cleaned out... PATTI STANGER That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM It's funny because there's a part of me that, if something is popular, I sort of become a de... AJ LEE The America night. It was better because I was with my wife. How can you beat that? ... Listening to... BOB COSTELLO The term 'overachiever' sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he jus... RICK PITINO Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD My wife was attacked and bitten on the beach four years ago. Even if a dog comes up playfully, she?s... JAMES CAHILL I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it d... KASKADE 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON In modern usage a cuckold is the husband of an unfaithful wife - a far nastier and more humiliating ... ANNE FAUSTO It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. DEBASISH MRIDHA I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there may be a wife someplace ... BELLA ABZUG My wife would say I'm more Hyde than Jekyll! JAMES NESBITT I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded. RAINN WILSON We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... KURT VONNEGUT I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle ... MAYA ANGELOU It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married,... JOHN CUSACK It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curv... NEIL ARMSTRONG I could give you a long list of things I like about Britain, but essentially what it comes down to i... BILL BRYSON It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of... JOEL COEN Knowing the people makes it more enjoyable. I recognized a local stockbroker, a doctor's wife, the p... DAVE MILLER Celebrity is a word that I find offensive. That's the c-word. I hate it. It means no discernible... BOB SAGET I want to die before my wife, and the reason is this: If it is true that when you die, your soul goe... BILL COSBY I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face. "... BRANDON SANDERSON People become more ignorant when it comes to religion. DANIEL MELGAçO It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name... BOB COSTAS What's the difference between people who see and seek gaps and those that see and seek bridges? The ... RICHIE NORTON Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, s... YUL VAZQUEZ When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thi... BARRY HANNAH It's like when a guy gets a divorce from his wife. You part ways. That's what I did with The... BRIAN WILSON The nice thing about doing a pop opera - in the way that doing, say, 'Miss Saigon' or 'L... LEA SALONGA You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you desc... MARK HADDON When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ''It is talking to me, and abou... SOREN KIERKEGAARD If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to be... JONATHAN COE I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quit... LAURA WADE Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY That idea came from my wife (Virginia), ... You know, 'Dallas' had done the thing about one season b... BOB NEWHART I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge compl... TAYLOR SWIFT There Is a thing that every person in this world has and it is something that cannot be taken away;w... DELETE ACCOUNT It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN The best compliment we ever got about the show was from a Korean veteran who was unable to talk abou... GARY BURGHOFF The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE For some reason, I find jogging incredibly boring, but yoga is the only thing I've been able to ... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO As a writer, that moment every few years when I buy a new laptop and find out that all the word proc... JOHN NIVEN I'll say this, I'm no stranger to working with a foreign cast, foreign directors, that sort ... JAIMIE ALEXANDER I realized that more and more I was saying, 'It seems to me that we have come to the time war ought ... LINUS PAULING And you wouldn't believe what a small world it is because everyone seems to know that I was a Playma... MARLIECE ANDRADA The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
More Stephen Merchant
I'm looking for a woman with the body of Kelly Brook and the mind of Stephen Fry. STEPHEN MERCHANT John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he... STEPHEN MERCHANT A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They we... STEPHEN MERCHANT I have experienced bad dating and ineptitude with women all across the globe, from Vietnam to Paris.... STEPHEN MERCHANT People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren B... STEPHEN MERCHANT I'm always jealous of Johnny Depp's sense of style, but if I tried to get away with a floppy... STEPHEN MERCHANT I suffered when I was in my late twenties and early thirties. I was awkward, I stuck out, I was nerd... STEPHEN MERCHANT Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of atte... STEPHEN MERCHANT I know that this sounds grand, but I don't try to compete with other people. I like to think the... STEPHEN MERCHANT People don't mind insulting the tall. We're supposed to be fine with being awkward and skinn... STEPHEN MERCHANT When I started to mention to people who know about such things, 'I'm doing this game, 'P... STEPHEN MERCHANT I've jokingly said that everything I'm doing now is filling up the hours before I die, but I... STEPHEN MERCHANT Remember that film 'Sliding Doors,' when John Hannah woos Gwyneth Paltrow by reciting Monty ... STEPHEN MERCHANT I've always been a fan of physical comedy. It kind of hits you in a different way; it bypasses t... STEPHEN MERCHANT I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier. STEPHEN MERCHANT Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don... STEPHEN MERCHANT When we did 'The Office,' no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could ... STEPHEN MERCHANT I just always remember there being an ability to amuse schoolmates. Not in a kind of 'dance-arou... STEPHEN MERCHANT There's this way pop culture has been rammed down our throats that people think that if they wer... STEPHEN MERCHANT I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a cr... NATALIE MERCHANT I've raised my daughter with no television. NATALIE MERCHANT It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent. NATALIE MERCHANT I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have! NATALIE MERCHANT I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to delib... NATALIE MERCHANT I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself int... NATALIE MERCHANT I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people. NATALIE MERCHANT I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mas... NATALIE MERCHANT Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index... NATALIE MERCHANT It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, an... NATALIE MERCHANT I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics. NATALIE MERCHANT The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-close... NATALIE MERCHANT I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope. NATALIE MERCHANT My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension i... NATALIE MERCHANT I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it'... NATALIE MERCHANT I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55. NATALIE MERCHANT Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so... NATALIE MERCHANT Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the... LARRY MERCHANT Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. NATALIE MERCHANT The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more of... TAMZIN MERCHANT [Her husband, violinist Sanford Allen, rehearses Bach on his Stradivarius next door, for a recital u... ISMAIL MERCHANT We may be able to have antibiotics that you take orally, potentially also antibiotics that you could... MARK MERCHANT The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck. LARRY MERCHANT I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fi... LARRY MERCHANT We (the county executive staff) came up with an extensive list of potentially interested parties and... JENNIFER MERCHANT The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge. ISMAIL MERCHANT Icons are our windows into the Kingdom of Heaven, transporting us beyond our brokenness and helping ... CORNELIA MERCHANT I think looking at restoration from a purely (environmental) standpoint may mean tearing people's ho... JENNIFER MERCHANT We had some folks that thought it was too business oriented so we added two more seats. JENNIFER MERCHANT I recommend the deletion of any numerical standards (goals) until further studies can be made. JENNIFER MERCHANT I'm still unclear on how indicators and standards are not only going to be used, but how they are (b... JENNIFER MERCHANT Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only jus... ISMAIL MERCHANT Don't shop when you're hungry or in a grumpy mood. You need to feel happy and confident to m... TAMZIN MERCHANT You will have an opportunity to appreciate the magnificence of Orthodox iconography. CORNELIA MERCHANT We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or c... ISMAIL MERCHANT Neither guy wanted to yield. It was the third fight of their trilogy, and it was that important. LARRY MERCHANT It's like a commercial. It's flashy with it's 'Life is good. Life is happy. Life is perfect.' But in... JOSIE MERCHANT I'm still a little perplexed at Carrie Moore and Casey Rost. If we see them again, certainly, we're ... SUZY MERCHANT I just wanted to get all this stuff in one place, ... A lot of it was scattered around or out of pri... NATALIE MERCHANT Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index. NATALIE MERCHANT I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people. NATALIE MERCHANT It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent. NATALIE MERCHANT I'm in the public eye. I've sold 14 million records -- so 14 million individuals have bought my reco... NATALIE MERCHANT That kind of violence is dangerous to me, to be beamed out via satellite to the rest of the country.... NATALIE MERCHANT We may be able to have antibiotics that you take orally, potentially also antibiotics that you could... MARK MERCHANT Retrospective 1990-2005 [Limited Edition] NATALIE MERCHANT I haven't seen Johnson enough in the past to know, but he's a guy who's fought all these years, 16 y... LARRY MERCHANT A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture... ISMAIL MERCHANT There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobster... LARRY MERCHANT This is our first fund-raiser. CORNELIA MERCHANT The parish is hoping to raise funds to have the icon of Christ painted at the apex of the dome above... CORNELIA MERCHANT I believe that at the very root of our humanity is a passion to create value with heart, to work alo... NILOFER MERCHANT It's hard to break through the clutter of fighters out there trying to get attention, LARRY MERCHANT This team is gonna get murdered. LARRY MERCHANT Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent. LARRY MERCHANT I think it all depends on how good this fight is. I don't know how to rank it. If this turns out to ... LARRY MERCHANT He's so good, you wonder what's wrong with him. LARRY MERCHANT The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America. STEPHEN B. STEPHEN LEACOCK Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imaginat... STEPHEN COVEY Demons manifest themselves in people in different ways. For instance, out of nowhere, somebody can b... STEPHEN BALDWIN I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my... STEPHEN HAWKING Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, ... STEPHEN COVEY Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good r... STEPHEN CHOW I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whethe... STEPHEN KING Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we... STEPHEN COVEY A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statemen... STEPHEN COVEY Listen with your eyes for feelings. STEPHEN COVEY We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inward... STEPHEN HAWKING Fiction is the truth inside the lie. STEPHEN KING And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invadin... STEPHEN KING Each life makes its own immitation of immortality. STEPHEN KING I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find th... STEPHEN KING You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long a... STEPHEN KING When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.' STEPHEN KING The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your fe... STEPHEN KING Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in. STEPHEN KING We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. STEPHEN KING People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small ... STEPHEN KING Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way. STEPHEN COVEY Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. STEPHEN COVEY Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you. STEPHEN COVEY Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply. STEPHEN COVEY Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along ... STEPHEN HAWKING Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs. STEPHEN COVEY The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain... STEPHEN HUNTER Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests. STEPHEN KINZER I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. ... STEPHEN BALDWIN Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important o... STEPHEN DOUGLAS Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. STEPHEN KING Get busy living, or get busy dying. STEPHEN KING Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. STEPHEN GARDINER The devil's voice is sweet to hear. STEPHEN KING Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn... STEPHEN COLBERT Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation. STEPHEN HAWKING I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my... STEPHEN HAWKING During the 1990s the United States sought to impose the 'Washington Consensus' on Latin Amer... STEPHEN KINZER My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a ... STEPHEN DOBYNS I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to ... STEPHEN COLBERT I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any ... STEPHEN DALDRY So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is r... STEPHEN HAWKING [Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to the... STEPHEN BATCHELOR They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of... STEPHEN PHILLIPS I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one. STEPHEN REA Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a ... STEPHEN VIZINCZEY Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures,... STEPHEN HARPER My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've be... STEPHEN CURRY I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check mys... STEPHEN COLLINS I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner... STEPHEN FRY Growing up, it was about finding a way to entertain myself outdoors. We spent all the summers on the... STEPHEN COLLETTI Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public. STEPHEN BREYER Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patr... STEPHEN KINZER secrets are a problem, maybe the biggest problem of all. They weigh on the mind and take up space in... STEPHEN KING Wanting to know things and do things is what the human race is all about. Exploration, Gwendy! Both ... STEPHEN KING We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles. STEPHEN COVEY Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative an... STEPHEN COVEY I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-... STEPHEN SONDHEIM I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary... STEPHEN HOPKINS I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremos... STEPHEN HARPER I remember that Martin Hannett once had an idea of making a record and burying it in his garden so t... STEPHEN MORRIS As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other ... STEPHEN KINZER It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz. STEPHEN DORFF Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is bein... STEPHEN KINZER There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literatu... STEPHEN STILLS Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. STEPHEN LEACOCK Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he ... STEPHEN AMBROSE I'm your full blown charismatic evangelical freak daddy. STEPHEN BALDWIN My African heritage is a part of reggae music roots, and the concept is that the album, 'Revelat... STEPHEN MARLEY Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wea... STEPHEN MARLEY All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, wh... STEPHEN HAWKING Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl. STEPHEN LEACOCK The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and... STEPHEN LEACOCK I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I
have of it. STEPHEN LEACOCK A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carrie... STEPHEN LEACOCK I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume... STEPHEN DALDRY In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an exp... STEPHEN COLBERT The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got i... STEPHEN COLE Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go s... STEPHEN VIZINCZEY Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. STEPHEN LEACOCK As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mo... STEPHEN GRAHAM Basketball is booming, and it's not just an Under Armour standpoint: it's about the game its... STEPHEN CURRY If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...re... STEPHEN KING I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. STEPHEN BALDWIN The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organiz... STEPHEN COVEY Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down. STEPHEN FRY And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're i... STEPHEN KING Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up. STEPHEN KING Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. STEPHEN SWID Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. STEPHEN LEACOCK He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a ... STEPHEN KING Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is ... STEPHEN HAWKING After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed ... STEPHEN KING The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing th... STEPHEN HAWKING If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and wha... STEPHEN LEVINE Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. STEPHEN LEVINE (on love) It's the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always se... STEPHEN KING But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one ... STEPHEN FRY People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the... STEPHEN KING Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked ... STEPHEN VIZINCZEY The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make... STEPHEN SONDHEIM Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. A... STEPHEN KINZER Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, w... STEPHEN MARLEY I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me. STEPHEN FRY After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world. STEPHEN KINZER Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your t... STEPHEN MARLEY If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be. STEPHEN CLARKE There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the num... STEPHEN FRY That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversa... STEPHEN KENDRICK When a man has died, he wants you to know about it. STEPHEN KING His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead dec... STEPHEN KING God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with... STEPHEN CROTTS I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wo... STEPHEN SPENDER After the day there cometh the derke night;
For though the day be never so longe,
At last the ... STEPHEN HAWES The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them STEPHEN KING When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ... STEPHEN FRY You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of ... STEPHEN RICHARDS Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right. STEPHEN RICHARDS If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t... STEPHEN KING We accept the love we think we deserve. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life. STEPHEN CHBOSKY It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with som... STEPHEN CHBOSKY