Stephen McCauley Quotes

The only responsible way to write about anything is with honesty.

Stephen McCauley

• Write
• Honesty
• Responsible

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• Running back was always my favorite position.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Running
  • Always
  • Back

• I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Know
  • Play
  • Strange

• I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Present
  • Like

• Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Yoga
  • Union
  • Dimensions

• It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Victory

• I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Music
  • Hope

• Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It's so important.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Important
  • Children
  • Kids

• I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Needs
  • Values

• If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Work
  • She
  • Movie

• There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Power
  • Government
  • Judge

• I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • History
  • Career

• The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • People
  • Political
  • Attention

• In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Future
  • Past
  • Action

• When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Home
  • Book
  • Year

• It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Horse

• The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities

  

  David Loy
  • Mind
  • Stories
  • Identity

• Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Life
  • Future
  • Giving

• You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.

  

  Sigrid Nunez
  • Experience
  • Write
  • Memory

• My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The only responsible way to write about anything is with honesty.

  

  Stephen McCauley
  • Write
  • Honesty
  • Responsible