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There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.


Gertrude Stein

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[with credit to Gertrude Stein]
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Gertrude Stein and a Companion
GERTRUDE STEIN Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
LESLIE FIEDLER Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.
CLIFTON FADIMAN Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly
CLIFTON FADIMAN If someone said they were going to beat you up in a non-serious manner, it wouldn't be assault, ... ...
ARTHUR MITCHELL Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their ...
MADONNA CICCONE The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell- unquestionably. Yo...
DIANA VREELAND Gertrude Stein -- as a lesbian, a Jew, an exile (and) a woman -- was someone who was indomitable in ...
FRANK GALATI If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depth...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
WILLA CATHER I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups be...
MORRISSEY If you were up to your neck in cat vomit and someone threw dog poop at you would you duck?
JOEL SAMAHA I just kind of wonder what it would be like to find someone who loves you the same amount that you l...
BRITTAINY C. CHERRY There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fo...
SOURCE UNKNOWN If Someone misunderstood You but You have nothing against them, But sometimes people want to see in ...
AVNIJCUKY It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
RAYMOND QUENEAU He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
ANNE CARSON You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love some...
JOHN MAYER You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love some...
ROY CROFT But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friend...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things li...
JEREMY NORTHAM If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children ...
ALBERT BANDURA I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find eac...
RAINBOW ROWELL No one wants to follow a pessimist... You can be skeptical, you can be realistic, but you can't ...
BOB IGER You can have any political standpoint and find someone else with it. You can be who you are and find...
LINDA MOORE She knew him in that way you can only know a person you remember as a child, like if you cracked awa...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like...
ANDREW MATTHEWS The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes l...
TERRY PRATCHETT You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care...
QUEEN LATIFAH There are a lot of companies that don't necessarily know if they can be independent companies. So a ...
ANDREW SCHROEPFER Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
WILLIAM GLASSER If you hear that someone is going to break into your house and harm you, can you go over to their ho...
DAVID ROTHSTEIN When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them ...
HERMANN HESSE Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein...
JAMES LAUGHLIN Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work...
ERMA BOMBECK There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can b...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN If you're both single and available, go for it. But be impeccable with your behavior and your work. ...
APRIL MASINI My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid w...
KUMAIL NANJIANI I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- ...
JOSEPH CONRAD I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - fo...
JOSEPH CONRAD There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because w...
J.D. ROBB There will always be competition, especially in showbiz. There's always someone younger and hung...
PREITY ZINTA It didn’t seem like they were here to find food. Nor did they have the patience to bite anyone. Le...
VIVEK SHANBHAG If you were to search for the genetic mutation behind this mouse's disease, you wouldn't find it; th...
CAROL GREIDER We had the buses take them home if there would be someone there. If not, they were taken to the room...
ANN OWEN We can only query against that which we have collected. And so if someone has never made a ripple in...
JAMES COMEY Decide whether you are living up to your best idea of who you should be—and work on it if you're n...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I look back at all the years that I have done this and there have been so many people who have helpe...
KYLE BRADY People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his...
LIBBA BRAY When you were in least of need, people or objects turned up but when you were in a fraught situation...
DEEPIKA KUMAARAGURU If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be n...
B. TRAVEN If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be ...
B. TRAVEN You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.
LEMONY SNICKET Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is...
GERTRUDE STEIN Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so mu...
GERTRUDE STEIN There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
GERTRUDE STEIN If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what.
ROY T. BENNETT With a hologram, like when your teacher is one of them, if you aren’t looking right at them, they ...
M.T. ANDERSON Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your wo...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smili...
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COLBY MAY Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself ...
HENRI NOUWEN You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then...
TERRY BRADSHAW There will always be "petty tyrants" who are more interested in what time you came to work than what...
RALPH DOWNEY III Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits...
LYNN JOHNSTON People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care...
PETE CARROLL Users might lose trust in the system if there are multiple versions of the same domains. If someone ...
GEIR RASMUSSEN While you're worrying about becoming famous, there is someone out there putting in work and not wast...
TORRON-LEE DEWAR ...no matter the flaws you find when you look at yourself in the mirror, somewhere on God's earth, y...
STEVE HARVEY If you continuously speak down AT people, be careful; at one point or another you may find yourself ...
N. S. COLE If you're going to be a nurse today, you can find someone to send you to school.
CAROLINE SEIGLER The theory behind the program was it would catch people who dropped their insurance after renewing t...
STEVE DALE You can make life a little more difficult for somebody here than other places. If you keep them behi...
DALE JARRETT If you were born really ugly like me, have no fear. There's steps you can take to be good-lookin...
JENNA MARBLES There were students from all over the world. Their professor asked them to write thank-you letters. ...
FRED SHAW If someone hates you, don’t let them find you hateful.
VIKRANT PARSAI If I were in that situation, I would appreciate someone in a big red van showing up to help out, you...
BRIAN SPEARS I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. Y...
SHANE WARNE When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have t...
HILARY MANTEL Resolve to be honest at all events: and if in your judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.
MARK HOPPUS Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU An hour ago, I never would have thought that someone like him could be my savior, but he is. What ty...
KATIE MCGARRY I was so happy to be out of there. “Barabas, if you weren’t batting
for the other team, I�...
ILONA ANDREWS The Tories are starting to eat away at Liberal support in key geographic regions like Southwest Onta...
TIM WOOLSTENCROFT If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they neve...
RICHARD BACH When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that's fine. But when you start hear...
JONATHAN HAIDT I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was "You'll never find anyone like me...
KEITH SWEAT I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was "You'll never find anyone like me...
OSCAR WILDE I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was "You'll never find anyone like me...
NEIL GAIMAN “I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was "You'll never find anyone like...
ASHISH KUMAR No matter what you hear, do not go into the Forest. If you hear something, or someone, in there... d...
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BEN STEIN Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
BEN STEIN It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even ...
BEN STEIN You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, eve...
BEN STEIN It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is neve...
BEN STEIN Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the...
BEN STEIN Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child ...
BEN STEIN Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement...
BEN STEIN To provide a welcoming path to citizenship for immigrants and to restore our civil liberties, our fo...
JILL STEIN Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger u...
BEN STEIN A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are...
BEN STEIN If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.
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