Stephen Collins Quotes

Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again. ~ Stephen Collins

Because" is a word used by ordered, order-loving beings about a world which they like to think is ordered. "Because" is for storybooks. This is... Well, I know this is difficult to understand, but what we see here is becauselessness itself. ~ Stephen Collins

Beneath the skin of everything is something nobody can know. ~ Stephen Collins

The process of doing plays will make you an actor. ~ Stephen Collins

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else. ~ Stephen Collins

When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends. ~ Stephen Collins

Don't try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you're interested in. ~ Stephen Collins

The job of the skin is to keep it all in.

-The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil ~ Stephen Collins

There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career. ~ Stephen Collins

I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven. ~ Stephen Collins

It wasn't pretty, that much was true. But it looked like an ending. Neat. Complete. ~ Stephen Collins

Well I'm a longtime AOL subscriber and I love the whole thing. I'm an email junkie and I love the internet, though 7th Heaven doesn't give me much free time to surf these days. ~ Stephen Collins

I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer. ~ Stephen Collins

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now. ~ Stephen Collins

The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it. ~ Stephen Collins

I have an almost seven year old ... I think it's essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one. ~ Stephen Collins

Peeta smiles and douses Haymitch's knife in white liquor from a bottle on the floor. He wipes the blade clean on his shirt tail and slices the bread. Peeta keeps all of us in fresh baked goods. I hunt. He bakes. Haymitch drinks. We have our own ways to stay busy, to keep thought of our time as contestants in the Hunger Games at bay. ~ Suzanne Collins

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history. ~ Stephen Jay Gould

Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show. ~ Suzanne Collins

Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling. ~ Stephen Covey

No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then ... what? What would my life be like on a daily basis? Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of food. Take that away and I'm not really sure who I am, what my identity is. The idea scares me some. ~ Suzanne Collins

I was sitting at the bar of the Hegira that night when Ginny came in. The barkeep, an ancient sad-eyed patriarch named Jose, had just poured me another drink, and I was having one of those rare moments any serious drunk can tell you about. A piece of real quiet. Jose's cheeks bristled because he didn't shave very often, and his apron was dingy because it didn't get washed very often, and his fingernails had little crescents of grime under them. The glass he poured for me wasn't all that clean. But the stuff he poured was golden-amber and beautiful, like distilled sunlight, and it made the whole place soothing as sleep - which drunks know how to value because they don't get much of it. ~ Stephen R. Donaldson

By the time he was done with the deer it had been dark three hours and his bad leg was singing 'Ave Maria'. ~ Stephen King

My sense of time seems to be melting, like a kid's snowman in a January thaw. ~ Stephen King

There is nothing of God or Light in that heartless sound - it is all black winter and dark ice. ~ Stephen King

Don't waste time making money ... use Cosmic Ordering. ~ Stephen Richards

You be careful. I'd take you myself, but I'm busy as a cat in a mess of guitar strings. ~ Stephen King

Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it. ~ Stephen Covey

She pushed the button and like a miracle her head filled with the sound of Jerry Trupiano's voice ... and more importantly, with the sounds of Fenway Park. She was sitting out here in the darkening, drippy woods, lost and alone, but she could hear thirty thousand people. It was a miracle. ~ Stephen King

Accidental shooting death, they argue, are just part of the price we pay for freedom ... and besides, that sort of thing would never happen to me; I'm too cool-headed. ~ Stephen King

It's not how you compensate your executives, it's which executives you have to compensate in the first place. If ~ James C. Collins

The withdrawal of more than half a million Russian troops and dependents from Germany since 1991 is described by historians as 'the biggest pullout ever by an army not defeated in battle.' ~ Stephen Kinzer

Light flooded their senses; for a split second Olivia, blinking in its brilliance, thought the light was actually yellow. Then she blinked again, and the room itself was yellow: yellow roses climbing the walls, a white and yellow canopy- of course, a canopy- matching the wadded silk bedspread, braided yellow rugs strewn across the bare wooden floorboards. Abby gave a little cry and ran to the curved windows opposite, where a riot of yellow and pink throw pillows lined the window seat. ~ Susan Gilbert-Collins

Hegel believed that progress is ultimately furthered by the person who is out of step with the majority. Only this person, the genuine nonconformist, really experiences the constraints on freedom. Only this person is in the position of questioning the prevailing understandings of happiness. For ~ Stephen Eric Bronner

Access to public libraries also affects how much children read. ~ Stephen D. Krashen

Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master. ~ Stephen Covey

Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it. ~ Stephen Harper

If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed! ~ Joan Collins

Nineteen is the age where you say Look out, world, I'm smokin' TNT and I'm drinkin' dynamite, so if you know what's good for ya, get out of my way - ~ Stephen King

Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number. ~ Stephen Jay Gould

The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them
when they feel understood by you
that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open. ~ Stephen Cove

The feast I ate was rotten,
What I thought was a palace was a dungeon. ~ Stephen King

The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along in the stream of past conditioning and habit. The moment we decide to stop and look at what is going on (like a swimmer suddenly changing course to swim upstream instead of downstream), we find ourselves battered by powerful currents we had never even suspected - precisely because until that moment we were largely living at their command. ~ Stephen Batchelor

I never quite got the hang of the getting drunk & fondling the thighs [of all the cumbersome young males] business ... whether that makes me a gallant & proper gentleman, a cowardly wuss or an unadventurous prude, I cannot make out ~ Stephen Fry

Everything is brand-new, I will be the first and only tribute to use this Launch Room. ~ Suzanne Collins

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with. ~ Stephen Stills