Rex Stout Quotes

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

Rex Stout

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• There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Things
  • Try

• My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • People
  • She
  • History

• Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Long
  • Real
  • American

• You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Book
  • Happiness

• But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Country
  • Think
  • House

• I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • People
  • Important
  • Travel

• We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Just
  • Consequences

• The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• If you love Barry Manilow, you're gonna love the Insane Clown Posse. Love 'em. They're exactly... well, they're not EXACTLY alike, but they're a little bit alike...

  

  Zach Galifianakis

• Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

  

  Livy
  • Desire
  • Fall
  • Honor

• There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • Together
  • Science
  • Tree

• A man can never dream these kinds of thingsEspecially when she came and spread her wingsWhispered in my ear the things I'd likeThen she flew away into the night.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • She
  • Dream
  • Night

• I love singing and I think I have a really nice voice, but I don't think I have an unbelievable singing voice. I think I have a great character voice.

  

  Katie Finneran
  • Great
  • Character
  • Nice

• I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

  

  Bess Myerson

• At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Party
  • Tea

• Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • People
  • Important
  • Lost

• I think a script is great when it starts with the structure and works with the structure without falling into the typical three-act system in which the audience is ahead of the movie. I hate that, but that is like 99% of what I read.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Hate

• I don't hate people who colour-blind cast, but I hate people who colour-blind cast and pretend that they're not, who pretend that these bodies on stage don't actually carry specific meaning.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • People
  • Hate

• There are a lot of times when I walk into a room and forget why I walked in there. I'm going through some studies right now, and I am going to do a brain scan.

  

  Jim McMahon
  • Why
  • Brain

• I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing a sketch with an essay woven through it, or an essay with a sketch woven through it, or an editorial with a character in it, or a case history with a moral, or some other mongrel thing.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Writing
  • Character

• I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a part of human nature, and obviously it's a troublesome part of human nature. You always have responsibilities when you portray violence in what angle you put down on that scene..

  

  Niels Arden Oplev
  • Violence
  • Part
  • Human Nature

• I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • People
  • Real
  • Girl

• The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

  

  Rex Stout
  • Brain