Stephen Bonnet Quotes

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy ... and I keep it in a jar on my desk. ~ Stephen King

Hadn't you better hear the conditions before you accept them?"
"No. Give me your deal and I'll take it. There's Wendy and Danny to think about. If you want my balls, I'll send them airmail. ~ Stephen King

And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished. ~ Stephen Cole Kleene

I hope you forgive the unedifying sight of my struggle to express some of the truths of my inner self and to measure the distance between the mask of security, ease, confidence and assurance I wear (so easily that its features often lift into a smirk that looks like complacency and smugness) and the real condition of anxiety, self-doubt, self-disgust and fear in which much of my life then and now is lived. ~ Stephen Fry

If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval. ~ Stephen Kinzer

I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it. ~ Stephen J. Cannell

Sitting in the study hall he opened the lid of his desk and changed the number pasted up inside from seventy-seven to seventy-six. But the Christmas vacation was very far away: but one time it would come because the earth moved round always.
-Stephen Dedalus- ~ James Joyce

As opposition leader, [Stephen Harper] wrote in the Montreal Gazette in the year before he came to power: 'Information is the lifeblood of a democracy. Without adequate access to key information about government policies and programs, citizens and parliamentarians cannot make informed decisions and incompetent or corrupt governments can be hidden under a cloak of secrecy.'
When he became prime minister, his attitude appeared to undergo a shift of considerable proportions. It often took the Conservatives twice as long as previous governments to handle access requests. Sometimes it took six months to a year. ~ Lawrence Martin

String theory is rather like plumbing, in a way. ~ Stephen Hawking

You can do almost anything if you put your mind to it. Be it the perfect murder, robbing a bank or owning your own company. I don't go along with Prince Charles' maxim that everyone should know their place and limitations. ~ Stephen Richards

Just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is. ~ Stephen Chbosky

-the half-grasped but never spoken idea that maybe, when you got right down to the place where the cheese binds, there is no such thing as marriage, no such thing as union, that each soul stood alone and ultimately defied rationality. That was the mystery. And no matter how well you thought you knew your partner, you occasionally ran into blank walls or fell into pits. And sometimes (Rarely, thank god) you ran into a full-fledged pocket of alien turblence that can buffet an airliner for no reason at all. An attitude or belief which you had never suspected, one so peculiar (at least to you) that it seamed nearly psychotic. ~ Stephen King

Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair. ~ Stephen King

You're very pleasant to be with," she said. "I like you very much. And it's wonderful that you're not crazy. ~ Stephen King

To put it simply, the lizard brain is purely concerned with survival. ~ Stephen Richards

I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries. ~ Stephen Mangan

Now let's say you've finished your first draft. Congratulations! Good job! Have a glass of champagne, send out for pizza, do whatever it is you do when you've got something to celebrate. If you have someone who has been impatiently waiting to read your novel-a spouse, let's say, someone who has perhaps been working nine to five and helping to pay the bills while you chase your dream-then this is the time to give up the goods ... if, that is, your first reader or readers will promise not to talk to you about the book until you are ready to talk to them about it. ~ Stephen King

Whether we are at Cafe Gratitude or Carl's Jr, whether we are in a cathedral or in a nightclub, whether we are inside of a mosque or on the metro, every single moment is a sacred moment. A moment far too important for us to miss.

When we miss the people and the experiences and the feelings of our lives, we miss God. We don't get to know the joy of seeing God show up in the world. More profoundly, we don't get to participate in the wonder of God showing up in the world. ~ Stephen Lovegrove

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. ~ Stephen Bayley

FIGURE 3.1 Stars ~ Stephen Hawking

How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new. ~ Stephen Charnock

The two palm worms are brought in separate bowls, still alive, wriggling fiercely in a bath of turpentine-colored fish sauce with a few slivers of chili. The glossy brown heads of the grubs, the larvae of a weevil that infests palm trees, glisten like popcorn seeds; the wriggling abdomens have pale rubbery ridges. The owner of the restaurant, chubby and affable, comes out to instruct Nhat and me: we are to grasp the heads, pull off the fat white bodies with our teeth, and discard the heads, taking care that the larvae do not nip our tongues with their formidable pincers in the process. Biting down on squirming larvae seems barbaric, but my brain is starting to swim due to hunger, and the fish sauce is muskily aromatic. How bad could their fat glistening bodies taste? And am I not a direct descendant of insectivores, albeit roughly 100 million years removed? I ~ Stephen Le

The penalty for overeagerness is the same as the penalty for unworthiness. ~ Stephen King

My parents went to Ohio to see a very distant cousin get buried or married. I don't remember which. ~ Stephen Chbosky

THE LOSERS ARE STILL LOSING, BUT STANLEY URIS IS FINALLY AHEAD. ~ Stephen King

Picking oranges in Florida. Pushing a broom in New Orleans. Mucking out horse-stalls in Lufkin, Texas. Handing out real estate brochures on street corners in Phoenix, Arizona. Working jobs that pay cash.
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The faces on the currency don't matter. What matters is the sight of a weathervane against a violent pink sunset, the sound of his heels on an empty road in Utah, the sound of the wind in the New Mexico desert, the sight of a child skipping rope beside a junked-out Chevrolet Caprice in Fossil, Oregon. What matters is the whine of the powerlines beside Highway 50 west of Elko, Nevada, and a dead crow in a ditch outside Rainbarrel Springs.

Sometimes he's sober and sometimes he gets drunk. Once he lays up in an abandoned shed-this is just over the California state line from Nevada-and drinks for four days straight. It ends with seven hours of off-and-on vomiting. For the first hour or so, the puking is so constant and so violent he is convinced it will kill him. Later on, he can only wish it would. And when it's over, he swears to himself that he's done, no more booze for him, he's finally learned his lesson, and a week later lies drunk again and staring up at the strange stars behind the restaurant where he has hired on as a dishwasher. He is an animal in a trap and he doesn't care.
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Sometimes he asks himself what he thinks he's doing, where the hell he's going, and such questions are apt to send him in search of the next bottle in a hurry. ~ Stephen King

Israel deserves special treatment from the United States, both for historical reasons and because there can be no regional peace without a secure Israel. ~ Stephen Kinzer

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two. ~ Stephen Fry

Leslie Stephen died in 1904. In that year his children retreated to Wales for a period and then travelled in Italy. Vanessa and Virginia went on to Paris, where they met up with Clive Bell. On returning to London, Virginia suffered
a severe, suicidal breakdown. ~ Jane Goldman

My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family. ~ Stephen Mangan

Canada is a vast and empty country. ~ Stephen Harper

when the streets are deserted and a cold rind of moon floats over the canyons of the city. ~ Stephen King

When I look back at how the idea that "the universe conspires" has played out in my life, it becomes clear that this notion isn't some mysterious or mystical conspiracy. To the contrary. The universe is comprised of all of us -- everyday people -- who choose to toil for our deepest passions with abandon. The universe is full of those who help guide others to discover new paths to old goals. The universe is made of each one of us who learns to believe in our own limitless potential and accept help from others to realize that potential. The universe is us -- every single one of us. We are mutually interdependent, whether we acknowledge it or not. That is why we must continue to reach toward each of our greatest aspirations. ~ Stephen DeBerry

Both of his parents were firm believers in better living through chemistry. ~ Stephen King

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw. ~ Stephen Covey

The great social, moral, and spiritual battles of the ages boiled down to Sandy McDougall slamming her snot-nosed kid in the corner and the kid would grow up and slam his own kid in the corner, world without end, hallelujah, chunky peanut butter. Hail Mary, full of grace, help me win this stock-car race. ~ Stephen King

What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution. ~ Stephen Schwartz

The universe is infinite, so there is room for everyone, for every belief, for every custom, and for every desire. You are in competition with no one but yourself. ~ Stephen Richards

There's Moses (...) Better company that some humans I've known [Sebastien] ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones

It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact. ~ Susanna Clarke

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path. ~ Stephen King

The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes
maybe even often
it's the solution. ~ Stephen King

Once we can see the major shifts from liking to disliking, from opened to close, we will be able to acknowledge them before they gain momentum. ~ Stephen Levine

People who shine can sometimes see things that are gonna happen, and I think sometimes they can see things that did happen. But they're just like pictures in a book. ~ Stephen King

That Arthur has not always existed seems odd to me. Like the wind on the moors and the wild winter stars, surely he has always lived ... and always will. ~ Stephen R. Lawhead

French is the language that turns dirt into romance. ~ Stephen King

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time. ~ Stephen Hawking

Republicans will need to work hard to capture the Latino vote instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos. ~ Stephen Colbert