Stephen Lawhead Quotes

Bright-kindled from heavenly flames,
framed of Love's all-consuming fire,
Ignited of purest passion,
Burning in the Creator King's heart,
A splendor of bliss to illuminate Albion! ~ Stephen R. Lawhead

And everyone, men and women, seemed inordinately fond of hats. ~ Stephen Lawhead

I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes. ~ Stephen Colbert

I'd hate to think our whole planet was being judged by Texas. ~ Stephen King

To explain the Use of Education, no Method can be more effectual, than to shew what dull Mistakes and silly Notions Men are apt to be led into for Want of it. These Mistakes are so numerous, that if we were to undertake to divulge all the Errors that Men of no Knowledge in the Sciences labour under, the shortest Way would be to publish a compleat System of Natural Philosophy, which Learning, as it may be acquired by reading the different Books, which have already been wrote upon that Subject, in this Aera of the Sciences, such an Undertaking would be quite needless at this Time, even supposing the Author capable of that laborious Work. If the following Sheets do but serve to divest Men of some of those unreasonable Obstinacies with which they and their Forefathers have long been prepossessed, the Time will be well laid out, both of the Writer and Reader. ~ Stephen Fovargue

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common. ~ Stephen R. Donaldson

I am, he thought dimly, watching a vampire take a piss. ~ Stephen King

It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting. ~ Stephen King

Self-belief, also called self-efficacy, is the kind of feeling you have when you have, like a Jedi, mastered a particular kind of skill and with its help have been able to achieve your set goals. ~ Stephen Richards

the government-controlled Saudi daily Al-Riyadh published a column declaring that "the Jews' spilling human blood to prepare pastry for their holidays is a well-established fact. ~ Stephen Greenblatt

Chains (other than the ones we all learned to make out of strips of colored paper in kindergarten I suppose) are strong. We use them to pull engine blocks out of trucks and to bind the arms and legs of dangerous prisoners. ~ Stephen King

Genealogy: research by nobodies tracing their descent from a line of nobodies. ~ Stephen Gard

The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty' proved when it floated ashore recently. So there's a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams's uneven but occasionally funny 'License to Wed.' ~ Stephen Hunter

We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have long since replaced by more elaborate forms. But it is at least presumable that they could still detect in our speech, at least when it is public and elaborate, the underlying tone values with which it began. Thus if we could take a gibbon ape to a college public lecture, he would not understand it, but he would "get a good deal of it." This is all the students get anyway. ~ Stephen Leacock

Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants and wishes to make sure his or her needs are met. ~ Stephen Kendrick

Don't criticize me while I criticize other people. ~ Stephen Proskauer

I believe memories are ghosts. But spooks flapping along the halls of musty castles? I think those only exist in books and movies"

The Life of Chuck, If It Bleeds ~ Stephen King

In your present state, Chosen, Desecration lies ahead of you. It does not crowd at your back. ~ Stephen R. Donaldson

Mrs. Bradley's explanation: to make an irrevocable decision. What he learned later, sometimes to his sorrow, is that one comes upon most Rubicons unprepared. ~ Stephen King

So I'll wait, and sooner or later I'll know. I don't believe it's a question anymore of calling them or not calling them. Only a question of when. ~ Stephen King

His voice carried authority the way Ben & Jerry's carries calories. ~ Stephen White

Dying is active. Dying is not what happens to you. Dying is what you do. Dying ~ Stephen Jenkinson

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery. ~ Stephen Nachmanovitch

He was no longer strictly a man, if he had ever been one. He was like an onion, slowly peeling away one layer at a time, only it was the trappings of humanity that seemed to be peeling away: organized reflection, memory, possibly even free will ... if there ever had been such a thing. ~ Stephen King

Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy. And suddenly, almost simultaneously, extraordinary discoveries are made. ~ Stephen Fry

Can a mordern city burn,' he asked Tom. 'One made mostly of concrete and metal and glass? Could it burn the way Chicago did after Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lantern? ~ Stephen King

I will not waste it arguing about the merits of this short story or that poem. Why would I, when all such opinions are subjective, and no final resolution can ever be reached?" Some ~ Stephen King

My aspirations never lay with boxing, but that's the way I was pushed. I was still a choirboy when I started boxing because I remember I went to choir practice every Wednesday night. I missed some Wednesday nights if I was boxing and then when I missed it I'd have to tell the choirmaster why. I had a battle between the choir and boxing. When my voice inevitably broke, boxing won. ~ Stephen Richards

I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins. ~ Eric Avery

I could be accused of glamourising crime, the favorite question on all journalists' lips whenever they ask about anyone writing about such things. The answer to that must be an emphatic 'Yes'. We've come to expect our icons of the criminal world to be larger than life, better than anyone else at foiling the final capture scene. We all love a good thriller .... ~ Stephen Richards

When you explore your fears then you set yourself free. ~ Stephen Richards

As you know very well,' said Stephen, 'I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations how to set their house in order; nor must you compel them to be happy. But I too am a naval officer, brother; long, long ago you taught me that anyone nourished on ship's biscuit must learn to choose the lesser of two weevils. On that basis alone I may be said to have no objection to Moahu's becoming a nominal British possession. ~ Patrick O'Brian

To paraphrase Stephen King, sometimes an accident can be an unhappy woman's best friend. Put ~ MaryJanice Davidson

Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish. ~ Stephen King

I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts. ~ Stephen Frears

I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all. ~ Stephen King