Stockwell Day (Stockwell Burt Day Jr.) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
-
Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
-
I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
-
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
-
I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
-
I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
-
I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
-
My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
-
I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.
-
I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.
-
It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.
-
I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
-
The chaos and confusion during the waning days of the Kitzhaber administration, as well as the ensuing federal investigations into allegations of misconduct, caused Oregonians to question their faith in their governor and state government.
-
To be honest, I haven't felt at my best since this tournament began. I didn't feel good with the court or the balls. But those are excuses. You have to accept when you don't play well and somebody else does.
-
It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.
-
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
-
A lot of people come to Los Angeles and think that they're going to be famous, just like that.
-
I'd done kids' TV in the U.K., but not great kids' TV. So yes, 'Submarine' was the first film and the first good thing that I have done.
-
My first expedition was at about the age of eight.
-
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
-
I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.
-
I think, from the broad political spectrum, not just the Freedom Caucus, I think there is a need for internal reform that is how we bring bills up, getting back to regular order, how we offer amendments or don't offer amendments.
-
It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voice could be that difference.
-
Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.
