Stephen Strasburg (Stephen James Strasburg) Quotes

It's kind of like when you get married, you kinda go into it wanting to remember everything. And once it's done, you can't remember a single thing.

Stephen Strasburg

• Remember
• Married
• Wanting

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.

  

  Jack Black
  • Parents
  • Feel
  • Wrong

• I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Running
  • Politician
  • Become

• Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Be Happy

• We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Revolution
  • Battle
  • Ending

• In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Job
  • America

• I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Like
  • Things
  • Would

• I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Different
  • Kids

• I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Believe
  • Potential

• I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Success
  • Cherish

• There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Experience
  • Present
  • Childhood

• With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!

  

  Maika Monroe
  • World
  • Different
  • Lost

• I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • People
  • Fun
  • You

• Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Yourself

• 'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Family
  • Love
  • Friends

• I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Up
  • World
  • Giving

• What the hell, what are these guys thinking about? Can’t you get these guys back in the box?

  

  Colin Powell
  • Thinking

• The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Question
  • Answers
  • Good Ideas

• I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.

  

  Chelsea Peretti
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Blue

• Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • Mind
  • Job
  • Friend

• I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • People
  • Remember
  • Friend

• It's kind of like when you get married, you kinda go into it wanting to remember everything. And once it's done, you can't remember a single thing.

  

  Stephen Strasburg
  • Remember
  • Married
  • Wanting