Paul Stanley (Stanley Bert Eisen) Quotes
If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.
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Figure out who you are.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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I don't need adult supervision.
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
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Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.
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It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and on, if only I do not have to remember too much. A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.
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When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.
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I am often asked how I got into the business. I didn't. The business got into me.
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Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that - or we wouldn't still be talking about it in 2009. People of all ages and colors came together in the fields of Max Yasgur's farm.
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If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.
