S.C. Stephens Quotes

You know you’re permanent, right?

S.C. Stephens

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• My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Age
  • Famous

• Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Reality
  • Courage

• We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • High
  • Success
  • Small

• Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Time
  • World
  • Today

• My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • Explore

• I see the value of being a force. I don't want to say a force, but numbers. If you're all spread out, you can't change policy for the better, and I feel we've done that.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Done
  • Change
  • Value

• In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Pride

• I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much hip-hop as they could. I didn't do that until I started rapping.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Kids
  • Hip Hop

• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • School
  • Proud
  • Period

• It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Hope
  • Without
  • Only

• I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Daily
  • New York
  • News

• I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • New
  • New York
  • Theater

• Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Sex

• Actually my ideal piece of sculpture is a road.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Road

• Religion, virtually without fail, provides the army at war with its blessings, and recruits from among its officials the chaplain, who in military costume counsels and consoles and stiffens the morale of men at war.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • War
  • Military

• God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • World
  • God
  • Road

• The colors are stunning. In a single view, I see - looking out at the edge of the earth: red at the horizon line, blending to orange and yellow, followed by a thin white line, then light blue, gradually turning to dark blue and various gradually darker shades of gray, then black and a million stars above. It's breathtaking.

  

  William C. McCool
  • Dark
  • Exploration
  • Millions

• Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Mean
  • After
  • Paranoid

• I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Women
  • Character
  • Career

• There were some times when I just wanted to quit making music.

  

  Post Malone
  • Music

• In order to improve the condition of mankind all men must be given the certainty of security through the exchange of safeguards, the assurance of prosperity through an exchange of resources, the reality of freedom through the free movement of information, persons and ideas.

  

  Antoine Pinay
  • Movement
  • Prosperity
  • Condition

• You know you’re permanent, right?

  

  S.C. Stephens