Michael A. Stackpole Quotes

If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.

Michael A. Stackpole

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• The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Christian

• We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Broken
  • Nation
  • Divided

• Anyone should be able to read comics.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Should
  • Read
  • Anyone

• I just want to do my best, to be as close to the top as I can, and to get the maximum out of the car.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Want
  • Best
  • Car

• Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Character
  • Today
  • Effort

• In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Life
  • Want
  • Issue

• I was lucky to be with Johnny... he taught me a lot about fame.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Fame

• My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Kiss

• I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Always
  • Eye
  • Period

• New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Women
  • Art
  • Innovation

• Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Now

• Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • American
  • Hope
  • Give

• I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • People
  • Past
  • Learning

• At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Up
  • Military
  • End

• The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • People
  • Truth
  • Laugh

• I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Like
  • Facts

• The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Time
  • Lost
  • iPhone

• You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Different
  • Black
  • Amazing

• I am often asked how does being a woman affect my work at Affectiva. Honestly, I don't think it does.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Being
  • Honestly
  • Affect

• Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

  

  Al MacInnis
  • Independence
  • Steps
  • Resisting

• Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • American
  • Hope
  • Give

• In the end, The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life is
  • Treasure
  • Missed

• Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher and Ridley Scott are interested in it, too, because when you sit down on a meeting in HBO and they're like, "More, more." You're just like, "Oh yeah, I love this." Sometimes it's a little harder in film. I think also it's a great audience, take advantage of it. It's a great audience.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • People
  • Audience
  • Advantage

• If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.

  

  Michael A. Stackpole
  • Being
  • Steps
  • Mirrors