Stephan Pastis Quotes

I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the call every small house 'charming' and every run-down house a 'great fixer-upper'. Just once, I'd like them to show me a house and declare, 'This one's a piece of crap'.

Stephan Pastis

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• It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Religious
  • Speech
  • Charming

• I'm a tooth person... I like quirky teeth. My husband has little teeth with spaces in between them. He hates them and I love them. I like people with buckteeth, and I like it when they crinkle a bit. It's very charming.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Like
  • Person
  • Very

• There's a certain time in the core of making a movie from pre-production to halfway through post-production I don't read any project, my agent will tell people that "he's not reading." And then when I know how the movie's probably gonna work halfway into post-production, I'll come along.

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The only answer to this, and it isn't an entire answer, said Father Travis, is that God made human beings free agents. We are able to choose good over evil, but the opposite too. And in order to protect our human freedom, God doesn't often, very often at least, intervene. God can't do that without taking away our moral freedom. Do you see? No. But yeah. The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Charming
  • Peacemaker

• Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Dog
  • Cat
  • Function

• I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Borders
  • Declare

• Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Treated
  • Charming
  • Russian

• The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • Book
  • Agents
  • Addresses

• The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

  

  Herodotus
  • Men
  • Belief
  • Agents

• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • People
  • Souls
  • Charming

• I hung around hippie-ish kind of people and, first of all, they never made any money. If you never make any money, you never have to declare any profession!

  

  Charlemagne Palestine
  • Money
  • Never
  • Profession

• Mind control is the process by which individual or collective freedom of choice and action is compromised by agents or agencies that modify or distort perception, motivation, affect, cognition and/or behavioral outcomes. It is neither magical nor mystical, but a process that involves a set of basic social psychological principles. … It seems to me that at the very heart of the controversy over the existence of mind control is a bias toward believing in the power of people to resist the power of situational forces, a belief in individual will power and faith to overcome all evil adversity. It is Jesus modeling resistance against the temptations of Satan, and not the vulnerability of Adam and Eve to deception. More recently, examples abound that challenge this person-power misattribution.

  

  Benjamin Zablocki
  • Freedom
  • Faith
  • Challenge

• I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Raised
  • Sincere
  • Charming

• Let us join Paul and declare anathema upon anyone who loves not the Lord Jesus. (I Cor 16:22)

  

  Wiley Drake
  • Jesus
  • Declare
  • Anathema

• Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right.

  

  Josh Brolin
  • Right
  • To Do
  • Declare

• He seems like a nice charming guy. Mike Huckabee doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city—we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Violence
  • Evolution
  • Republicans

• There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.

  

  Erving Goffman
  • World
  • Reality
  • Alive

• This is somebody who knows how to stand up to you and me -- who knows how to push back against special interests, who knows how to stand up when matters of ethics and integrity come to the fore.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Up
  • Integrity
  • Ethics

• The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.

  

  Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Mother
  • Pleasure
  • Sacrifice

• I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the call every small house 'charming' and every run-down house a 'great fixer-upper'. Just once, I'd like them to show me a house and declare, 'This one's a piece of crap'.

  

  Stephan Pastis
  • Agents
  • Charming
  • Declare