Frank Richard Stockton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
-
In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
-
Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
-
I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
-
I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.
-
I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.
-
I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.
-
I truly believe that we're about to enter a second golden age of design. The first one was in the '50s and '60s, when designers like Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, George Nelson and Dieter Rams were shepherds of the brands they were working with. They had influence over the products and how companies communicated and promoted themselves.
-
I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.
-
One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.
-
But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
-
As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.
-
You cannot just switch football on and off; it's intense. There were times when I probably shouldn't have got involved in certain things and said certain things, but you feel that sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe. Maybe the supporters looked to me to stand up as well.
-
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
-
I take pride in knowing the NFL is pink in October, sparking conversations everywhere about breast cancer and prevention, all in the spirit of my mom.
-
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
-
We should celebrate how amazing our bodies are! We all have things that we like and dislike about our bodies, but we need to focus on what we love - maybe it's a great smile, strong legs or curly hair?
-
There's a wide spectrum of possibilities in how to deliver a song.
-
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
-
I grew up with Woody Allen and early Spike Lee movies in which New York was such a specific character. The city has a certain vibe and beat which really informs your entire existence.
-
Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.
-
I think growing up in the States and Australia, we were exposed to a lot of different types of things. I used to go to Gilman to watch punk shows, and it's a complete different environment - you were inspired by so many different things, whereas in Hong Kong, there is nothing for anybody.
-
I always modeled my game after the guys from Miami. Chad Ochocinco, Santana Moss, Andre Johnson. I used to love Roscoe Parrish as a returner.
-
May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.
