Stephen Carter Quotes

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

Stephen Carter

• Listening
• Gossip
• Rumor
• Noses

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• There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Up
  • Think

• I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Know

• Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Children
  • Nature
  • Education

• I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Opportunity
  • Cool
  • Camera

• The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Should
  • Grandparents
  • Grandchildren

• I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I don't mind playing spoiler.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Mind
  • Playing

• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Fun
  • Journey
  • Enjoy

• And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Good
  • Day
  • End

• I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • May
  • Care

• Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Loved
  • Read
  • Feared

• We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Live
  • Hate
  • Violence

• I have worked with the biggest actors from the beginning. I am hoping God will bless me to work with other big actors.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • God
  • Beginning

• I don't like to look sloppy. I'm a girly-girl.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Look

• When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Money
  • Law

• A tree ascended there. Oh pure transendence! Oh Orpheus sings! Oh tall tree in the ear! And all things hushed. Yet even in that silence a new beginning, beckoning, change appeared.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Beginning
  • Silence
  • Tree

• If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers.

  

  Bill Ackman
  • Time
  • Great

• Luckily, now I think that I attract people that are really nice, like my fans, who are really lovely people. They are really encouraging, and they help other people out as well, which, it's really great.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• What you learn from my life is, first of all, that anybody can be a leader. You can be a leader. I wasn't born that way - I developed it, I worked at it. And also that the grassroots can organize and take on all the powers that be and defeat them. That is the lesson.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly
  • Life

• When gossip grows old it becomes myth.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Grows
  • Gossip
  • Myth

• I don't have a huge breakfast, and I sometimes forget to have lunch, so I focus on dinner. I love Thai and Japanese food.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Food
  • Focus
  • Forget

• Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

  

  Stephen Carter
  • Listening
  • Gossip
  • Rumor