Stephen Karam Quotes

The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.

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• Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Good
  • Great
  • Service

• In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Rock
  • Woman
  • Motivated

• I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Life
  • Good
  • Hand

• I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'

  

  Randa Haines
  • God
  • Children
  • Me

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Sometimes
  • Spring
  • Prison

• You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • You
  • Go

• The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Age
  • Peace
  • Alone

• You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Surprised
  • Self-Esteem
  • Addict

• Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Family
  • Business
  • Story

• Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Body
  • Model
  • Walking

• It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • America
  • Myself
  • Doing

• I just love dancing.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Love
  • Just
  • Dancing

• Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Political
  • Law
  • Abuse

• We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Law
  • Rule
  • Rule Of Law

• You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

  

  Dave Winfield
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • Obstacles

• The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Done

• We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end; there are not pens or paper enough in all the world.

  

  George Arthur Buttrick
  • Writing
  • Journey
  • Enough

• By suns unsettling kist. Out through the utmost gates of space, Past where the gray stars drift, To the widening Infinite, my soul Glides on, a vessel swift, Yet loses not her anchorage In yonder azure rift.

  

  Lucy Larcom
  • Soul
  • Past
  • Space

• The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.

  

  Stephen Karam
  • Writing
  • Night
  • Wrestling