Stephen Rodrick Quotes

A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things.

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• Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Speak

• Many of the stranger but most frequently quoted scenes in 'Billy Madison' were unplanned.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Most
  • Stranger
  • Quoted

• There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Question
  • Reason

• I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • Stranger
  • Diplomacy
  • Diplomatic

• Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • Blessed
  • Stranger

• With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Respect
  • Candy
  • Stranger

• Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Family
  • Why
  • Stranger

• It doesn't matter if you're religious or not. Does anything make you feel more uncomfortable than some stranger going, I'd like to talk to you about Jesus?

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Jesus
  • Religious
  • Stranger

• The whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not an exhibitionist like other comics. I'm not up there talking about masturbating.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Comedy
  • Ideas
  • Laughing

• The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there.

  

  George Clooney
  • Stranger
  • Weed
  • Owners

• Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • World
  • Luck
  • Stranger

• Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Long
  • Snow
  • Stranger

• Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thinking
  • Stranger
  • Conspiracy

• An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Parents
  • Unhappy
  • Stranger

• No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • Stranger
  • Invisible

• Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Knows
  • Easy
  • Stranger

• Some things are just for private. It's like people thinking I'm cold or this or that. It's unfortunate, but I don't need strangers to know that I'm warm. I don't need strangers to know the real me.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Real

• A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?

  

  Albert Camus
  • Stranger
  • Refusing
  • Asserts

• I had taken away my own time and added it to his to make him more powerful. I had put aside my own aspirations to go along with his. At every crisis of despair I had set aside my own crises to comfort him. I had disappeared into his minutes, into his hours, so that he could concentrate. I had taken care of the house, I had taken care of the meals, I had taken care of the children, I had taken care of all the boring details of everyday life, while he stubbornly climbed the ladder up from our unprivileged beginnings. And now, now he had left me, carrying off, abruptly, all that time, all that energy, all that effort I had given him, to enjoy its fruits with someone else, a stranger who had not lifted a finger to bear him and rear him and make him become what he had become.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Energy
  • Crisis
  • Stranger

• Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.

  

  Ray McKinnon
  • Stranger
  • Narrative
  • Based

• I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Believe
  • Long
  • History

• Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Difficult
  • Produce
  • Tasks

• A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things.

  

  Stephen Rodrick
  • Stranger
  • Nickname
  • Colleague