Eric Stoltz Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
-
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
-
I signed this girl's arm. And the next day, a family member shot me an email, and it was a link to this girl who had my signature tattooed on her arm. I was like, 'Man, that's dedication. I'm sorry you did that.'
-
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
-
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
-
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
-
Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.
-
You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.
-
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
-
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
-
Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
-
My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
-
I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.
-
I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!
-
Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.
-
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
-
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
-
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
-
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
-
I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.
-
Focusing on a shared history of trauma and victimization alleviates their searing sense of isolation, but usually at the price of having to deny their individual differences: Members can belong only if they conform to the common code. Isolating oneself into a narrowly defined victim group promotes a view of others as irrelevant at best and dangerous at worst, which eventually only leads to further alienation. Gangs, extremist political parties, and religious cults may provide solace, but they rarely foster the mental flexibility needed to be fully open to what life has to offer and as such cannot liberate their members from their traumas. Well-functioning people are able to accept individual differences and acknowledge the humanity of others.
-
I consider myself a very lucky man indeed.
