Garth Stein Quotes
I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.
Quotes to Explore
-
Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
-
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
-
I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
-
I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
-
I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
-
Second place is just the first place loser.
-
Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
-
We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
-
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
-
Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
-
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
-
I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
-
I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
-
If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
-
It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
-
Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
-
Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
-
I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
-
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
-
I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now, I never play leading men. I'm that kamikaze comic that comes from the left, turns the table over, and leaves, or the hyper-intelligent yuppie scumbag if it's a drama.
-
At the height of the first great dot-com boom, Craig Kanarick, then in his early 30s, was running Razorfish, a Web design firm he'd co-founded with an old friend, which at its peak had 2,300 employees in nine countries.
-
We are what we seem to be.
-
Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
-
I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.
