Rex Stout Quotes
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
Rex Stout
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Of course there is really vile anti-Semitism in Wagner's writings, but I can't accept the idea that characters like Beckmesser and Alberich are Jewish stereotypes in disguise. Would Beckmesser be a court councillor if he was meant to be a Jewish stereotype? No Jew could occupy such a role.
Daniel Barenboim
My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.
Victoria Azarenka
Every single day, everywhere we went, people were coming up to me and Boyd repeatedly and saying, 'We're life-long Democrats, but we're voting for you. We've never voted for a Republican in our life.'
Larry Hogan
If you think something is impossible, then it certainly is... for you.
Naveen Jain
Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games.
Lea Thompson
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.
John Lahr
The feeling of a fiction collapsing inside you. A fiction you’d forgotten was there. Frame, crossbeams, slats, braces, joins. Revealing the softer sapwood, which is marked by candle burns. ...Jonathan holding both of my hands under the table, one of the first times we’d really touched. You must think I’m a lunatic. No, I think it’s a beautiful story. About family and art and memory and meaning, how it’s made and unmade.
Ben Lerner
I can think of matches I played where I played one or two points perfectly, and that gave me a thrill.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Scott Adams
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
Rex Stout
