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

• 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

• 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

• Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

  

  Marge Schott
  • Kids

• Archie Rice: Let me know where you're working tomorrow night and I'll come and see you.

  

  John Osborne
  • Night

• She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Beauty
  • Reputation
  • Gained

• The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.

  

  Michael Greger
  • Happens
  • Diet
  • Ethical

• I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.

  

  Jim Crace
  • Good
  • Long
  • Heart

• I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Chinese

• 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