Stephan Pastis Quotes

The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to try to use expressions like that on the comics page. People want to complain but they can't, because they can't figure out quite what they should be complaining about.

Stephan Pastis

• Monkey
• Explain
• Complaining

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• Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Mystery

• I don't really like to explain my songs.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Like
  • Songs
  • Explain

• Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Night
  • Party
  • Dance

• It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Action

• When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Fall
  • Vision

• The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Free
  • Violence

• Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Patience
  • Ego
  • Solitude

• Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Time
  • Complaining

• Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!

  

  Dav Pilkey
  • Complaining

• The paparazzi stuff is a little weird. I used to leave the house in my pajamas. I can't do that anymore, but I'm not complaining!

  

  Pixie Lott
  • House
  • Weird
  • Complaining

• In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • Up
  • Complaining
  • February

• I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Twitter. I know a lot of celebrities who go around complaining how little privacy they have. And then my question to that is always, 'Well, how much of yourself are you putting out there?'

  

  Cote de Pablo
  • Question
  • Complaining

• The public doesn't want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.

  

  Kristen Wiig
  • People
  • Taken
  • Picture

• Just as I am working hard to adjust to a new level, someone comes along and asks me to move up again. I'm not complaining about it; I just get on with trying to make sure I don't let anyone down. Training with England is just a different gravy again. Movement-wise, finishing-wise, you can learn such a lot from watching the very best in action.

  

  Jamie Vardy
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• I get 'female Kendrick' quite a lot. I'm definitely not complaining. At the same time, I want to be the female Simz. I just want to be me.

  

  Little Simz
  • Time
  • Complaining

• This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Life
  • World
  • True

• mimics someone complaining about second hand smoke Good theory. But guess what, if I don't smoke there's going to be secondary bullets coming your way, 'cause I'm that tense.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Complaining

• I want to be more like Pixie Lott. She works really hard but always manages to keep smiling. She never complains.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • She
  • Want
  • Hard

• Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Science
  • Language
  • Angel

• Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • People
  • Ways
  • Explain

• The real trick to auditioning is just letting go of trying to please them. Make it your own. That took me a long time to learn.

  

  Allison Janney
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• I want us to invest in your future. That means jobs in infrastructure, in advanced manufacturing, innovation and technology, clean, renewable energy, and small business, because most of the new jobs will come from small business.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Future
  • Jobs
  • Invest

• The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to try to use expressions like that on the comics page. People want to complain but they can't, because they can't figure out quite what they should be complaining about.

  

  Stephan Pastis
  • Monkey
  • Explain
  • Complaining