Michael A. Stackpole Quotes

In reality, a person questioning the existence of the Satanic conspiracy is merely pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. In that case, one can understand why the emperor's tailors get upset and suggest the person doing the pointing is a tool of the devil. Then the question comes down to one of whether the crowd will believe the evidence they have before them, or if they will buy into the tailors' fantasies.

Michael A. Stackpole

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• Questioning
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• Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.

  

  Oscar Fernandes
  • Country
  • Light
  • Religion

• I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Years
  • Point
  • Early

• I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Career
  • Man
  • Amazing

• I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Good
  • Me
  • Dance

• The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Different
  • Step
  • Admire

• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Flattery
  • Both
  • Giver

• The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Health

• At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Up
  • Love
  • Kids

• In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

  

  Idi Amin
  • People
  • Country
  • Law

• My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Time
  • College
  • Thought

• India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Model
  • Shadow
  • Development

• When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

  

  Imani Hakim
  • People
  • Myself
  • Doing

• Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Die
  • Brother

• I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Past
  • Democracy

• Every little girl wanted to be Natalie Wood, as did I.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Girl
  • Little
  • Wood

• I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Always
  • Beginning
  • End

• You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Work
  • Road
  • Name

• I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Think
  • Better
  • Now

• Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Cancer
  • Behave
  • Agendas

• When he came to television, there was no way I wasn't going to watch. Of course, he delivered everything that you would expect David Lynch to deliver, and more, and he was doing it in primetime network television. Even as a 14-year old, I wanted someone in the room with me that I could look over and say, 'Can you believe we're watching this?'

  

  James Roday
  • Believe

• I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, 'Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.'

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Giving

• A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.

  

  Bill Gaede
  • Believe
  • Dog
  • Individual

• And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.

  

  Alexander Pope

• In reality, a person questioning the existence of the Satanic conspiracy is merely pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. In that case, one can understand why the emperor's tailors get upset and suggest the person doing the pointing is a tool of the devil. Then the question comes down to one of whether the crowd will believe the evidence they have before them, or if they will buy into the tailors' fantasies.

  

  Michael A. Stackpole
  • Believe
  • Conspiracy
  • Questioning