Stephan Pastis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
-
For a long time, I said I didn't want to model. I was a dancer.
-
We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
-
I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
-
I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.
-
I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
-
We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
-
It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.
-
But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
-
My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
-
I could play for the worst team if they paid the most... If the last-place team offers $200 million and the first-place team offers $10, I'm going to go for the $200-million no matter what team it was.
-
The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
-
Every time I open a child's head and see a brain, I marvel at the mystery: This is what makes every one of us who we are. This is what hold all our memories, all our thoughts, all our dreams. This is what makes us different from each other in millions of ways.
-
Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.
-
If you go out in the country, spend a lot of time on decaying farms, and you see a lot of crumbling tobacco farms, and wandering the woods, there's something beneath the surface; there's something older... more sinister.
-
A lot of these big movies are just a collection or a montage of big set pieces.
-
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.
-
There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
-
The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.
-
If you film a scene in a wide shot, especially a disturbing, distressing moment, I do feel like that helps you feel as though you're the room with these people, instead of cutting it up and getting close - which you wouldn't be doing if you were actually in a room with these people.
-
Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?
-
Anything you want to know, you ask the characters.
-
Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.
