Stephen King (Stephen Edwin King) Quotes

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

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• I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Building

• If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • You
  • Wealth
  • Percent

• Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Women
  • Children
  • Practice

• So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Money

• Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Children
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Black
  • Green
  • Black-and-white

• Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Children
  • Today
  • Culture

• Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Powerful
  • Problems
  • Welcome

• We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • German

• There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Success
  • Universe

• I think that I appeal to the girliness in all of us.

  

  Anna Sui

• I die - but first I have possessed,And come what may, I have been blessed.

  

  Lord Byron
  • May
  • Die
  • Blessed

• I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Romantic

• Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I am.

  

  Tyson Chandler

• If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Trump

• There are a lot of kids coming in to athletics, but there is also a big drop-out rate. We've got it right at the top end, but we have to maintain the base of the pyramid.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • Kids

• Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.

  

  Alex Campbell
  • Society
  • Past
  • Question

• I wouldn't want to do anything like 'Minecraft' again, where it's, like, an on-going thing, and there are customers I have to keep happy.

  

  Markus Persson
  • Happy

• Effects are perceived, whereas causes are conceived. Effects always preceed causes in the actual developmental order. (p. 303)

  

  Marshall McLuhan

• Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Want
  • Giving
  • Force

• When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Done

• It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because he's been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And that's very important for this film, a lot of which was shot at night or with very low illumination.

  

  David Heyman
  • Important
  • Night

• People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

  

  Stephen King
  • Heart
  • Write
  • Gross