Stephan Pastis Quotes

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when youre in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. Its a great trick.

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• I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Socks

• One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • World
  • Great
  • Stand

• My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Question
  • Never

• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Forever
  • Spring
  • Winter

• I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Long
  • Soul

• When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Great
  • America
  • Dress

• Inspiration is the key to everything.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Inspiration
  • Key

• You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.

  

  Ian Wace
  • Money
  • Day
  • Environment

• I'm gonna love you like I've never been broken.

  

  Demi Lovato
  • Broken

• Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • Money
  • Poverty

• I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Intelligent

• It is almost always the case that when someone self-radicalizes, someone close to them sees the sign, which is why we continue to encourage public awareness, public vigilance.

  

  Jeh Johnson
  • Why

• Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Music
  • House
  • Cool

• When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.

  

  Bonnie Bassler
  • Today

• I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

  

  Denis McDonough
  • Up
  • Family
  • Proud

• My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

  

  Duffy Daugherty
  • Game
  • Feeling

• I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.

  

  Alex Turner

• While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

  

  David Antin

• I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

  

  Milos Zeman
  • Trying
  • Popular
  • Promise

• If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Feels
  • Needs
  • Infinite

• It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Success
  • Food

• I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when youre in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. Its a great trick.

  

  Stephan Pastis
  • Lawyer
  • Sues
  • Trick