Rex Stout Quotes

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

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• The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Man
  • Gay

• Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Government

• Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Always
  • Aim
  • Authenticity

• Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Great
  • Poetry
  • Language

• You are no longer paid just for the hours that you put in, but for what you put into those hours.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Hours
  • Paid

• The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • God
  • Peace
  • Surrenders

• Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Show
  • Vampire
  • American TV

• Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Littles
  • Hardest

• You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • God
  • Believe
  • Intelligent

• In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Representation

• Is it exciting to have a codified identity, which then gets a codified set of rights and recognitions and visibility? Are we supposed to take it from there, within the same system? Or are we trying to upset the table before we want a place at it?

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Identity
  • Exciting
  • Codified

• I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Sound
  • Drunk
  • Tongue

• If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

  

  Plutarch
  • Tongue
  • Mistaken
  • Concernment

• One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Soul
  • Faces
  • Tongue

• I'm the king of the world, I am the greatest, I'm Muhammed Ali, I shook up the world, I am the greatest, I'm king of the world, I'm pretty, I'm pretty, I'm a baaaad man, you heard me I'm a baaad man, Archie Moore fell in four, Liston wanted me more, so since he's so great, I'm a make him fall in eight, I'm a baaad man, I'm king of the world! I'm 22 years old and ain't gotta mark on my face, I'm pretty, I easily survived six rounds with that ugly bear, because I am the greatest.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • King
  • Wanted
  • Survived

• Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Success
  • Fighting
  • Failure

• What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

  

  Rex Stout
  • Tongue
  • Submit