Stanley Elkin quote: "What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood."

I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly writte...
STANLEY ELKIN

I was the only designer who suggested keeping everything instead of gutting it. It had, in fact, bee...
SELWYN ELKIN

The electricity was here, we just polished them up.
SELWYN ELKIN

My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when...
STANLEY HAUERWAS

I've always loved to play games, and face it: investing is one big game. You need to be decisive...
STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.
STANLEY KUBRICK

What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision a...
ANDY STANLEY

The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost...
RALPH STANLEY

I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley...
RALPH STANLEY

I believe in my music.
RALPH STANLEY

I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can&...
RALPH STANLEY

I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to...
RALPH STANLEY

I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
RALPH STANLEY

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to h...
CHARLES STANLEY

A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.
CHARLES STANLEY

A man can preach no better than he prays.
CHARLES STANLEY

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the...
CHARLES STANLEY

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, ...
CHARLES STANLEY

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.
CHARLES STANLEY

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might ...
CHARLES STANLEY

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously tr...
CHARLES STANLEY

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
CHARLES STANLEY

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. A...
CHARLES STANLEY

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us ...
CHARLES STANLEY

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how...
CHARLES STANLEY

The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the g...
CHARLES STANLEY

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find t...
CHARLES STANLEY

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been m...
STANLEY KUBRICK

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move...
STANLEY KUBRICK

I'd like to be able to tap with my action this low without buzzing.
STANLEY JORDAN

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals...
STANLEY CROUCH

A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like a child who sings at night when he is afraid
STANLEY BALDWIN

In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it....
STANLEY HAUERWAS

The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kil...
STANLEY BALDWIN

I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take thing...
STANLEY KUBRICK

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn i...
STANLEY LINDQUIST

If you can talk brilliantly enough about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has...
STANLEY KUBRICK

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.
STANLEY FISH

If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
STANLEY GARN

Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice.
STANLEY HOROWITZ

A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods ...
STANLEY KUBRICK

Power without responsibility -- the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
STANLEY BALDWIN

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
STANLEY BALDWIN

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.
STANLEY MARCUS

It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are pupp...
STANLEY MILGRAM

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to...
STANLEY MILGRAM

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so de...
STANLEY MILGRAM

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
STANLEY BALDWIN

A fascist sees the mote in his neighbor’s eye, then hits him over the head with the beam in his ow...
STANLEY MILGRAM

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. -Bessie Stanley.
BESSIE STANLEY

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for i...
EDWARD STANLEY

When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowe...
STANLEY LINDQUIST

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and ...
STANLEY WALKER

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
STANLEY KUNITZ

Owners of valuable works of art don't give to institutions that don't provide good air condi...
STANLEY MARCUS

The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into...
CHARLES STANLEY

'Dust Devil,' I've never really seen with an American audience, so I'm looking forwa...
RICHARD STANLEY

I am afraid of aeroplanes. I've been able to avoid flying for some time, but I suppose, if I had...
STANLEY KUBRICK

I really like sometimes to do action pictures; I get a really big kick out of doing those.
STANLEY CLARKE

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
STANLEY KUBRICK

There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and s...
PAUL STANLEY

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always t...
CHARLES STANLEY

If the Lord says to give more than you think you are able to give, know that He will provide for you...
CHARLES STANLEY

Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheatin...
ANDY STANLEY

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods an...
STANLEY KUBRICK

There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistent...
ANDY STANLEY

Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.
ANDY STANLEY

There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carr...
CHARLES STANLEY

When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.
PAUL STANLEY

God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior....
CHARLES STANLEY

I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have no...
STANLEY HAUERWAS

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's ...
CHARLES STANLEY

The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then you...
CHARLES STANLEY

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.
CHARLES STANLEY

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have ...
CHARLES STANLEY

Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photogr...
STANLEY KUBRICK

When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and follo...
CHARLES STANLEY

God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.
CHARLES STANLEY

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they ...
CHARLES STANLEY

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and mold...
CHARLES STANLEY

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things ma...
CHARLES STANLEY

I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, ...
STANLEY HAUERWAS

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police ar...
STANLEY CROUCH

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspirati...
PAUL STANLEY

Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures ...
PAUL STANLEY

I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all ...
CHARLES STANLEY

I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chape...
STANLEY HAUERWAS

We have never heard of laundering in Macau; money laundering is unheard of. Mind you, my casino, eve...
STANLEY HO

Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you n...
STANLEY BALDWIN

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a n...
STANLEY CLARKE

I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything ...
PAUL STANLEY

The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buyin...
ANDY STANLEY

Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess ...
ARTHUR STANLEY

To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catc...
PAUL STANLEY

If machines do everything well, including allocating capital and resources efficiently, can that be ...
STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER

I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine yea...
STANLEY DONEN

What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing ...
STANLEY DONEN

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.
PAUL STANLEY

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day wom...
CHARLES STANLEY

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would neve...
CHARLES STANLEY

I've seen myself do stuff on stage that was pretty amazing. I think that would be true for any a...
PAUL STANLEY

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
CHARLES STANLEY

All in all, I don't think robots and greater automation can bring about a utopian world as I ima...
STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER

Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of w...
CHARLES STANLEY

I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of ...
CHARLES STANLEY

All Scripture is equally inspired, but not all Scripture is equally applicable or relevant to every ...
ANDY STANLEY

From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal ...
STANLEY HAUERWAS

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions a...
STANLEY KUBRICK

God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let H...
CHARLES STANLEY

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fe...
CHARLES STANLEY

It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without ...
STANLEY HAUERWAS

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.
STANLEY CLARKE

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK

I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized...
STANLEY HAUERWAS

The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such...
STANLEY DONEN

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and decla...
CHARLES STANLEY

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's...
CHARLES STANLEY

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than...
PAUL STANLEY

I don't like not being busy.
STANLEY TUCCI

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the ba...
STANLEY KUBRICK

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
STANLEY HOROWITZ

The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the worl...
STANLEY HAUERWAS

One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out t...
STANLEY HAUERWAS

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of ...
CHARLES STANLEY

Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying...
STANLEY KUBRICK

The idea is that Jesus overcame death through the Resurrection. What that does is fail to appreciate...
STANLEY HAUERWAS

It helps me work on maybe moving the ball around a little bit as opposed to trying to throw strikes....
BRITTANY STANLEY

It's giving us more experience. It helps us believe in each other.
BRITTANY STANLEY

You don't realize what you take for granted. When you're surrounded [by devastation], it's a differe...
BRITTANY STANLEY

This project is open to everyone on campus. We're trying to get volunteers to sign up and go over sp...
BRITTANY STANLEY

We're trying to get funding from as many sources as possible.
BRITTANY STANLEY

It's hard to pitch this much early in the year but by the end of the season, I'll be used to it.
BRITTANY STANLEY

We're looking to go somewhere in or near New Orleans. We would like to go deeper into Louisiana.
BRITTANY STANLEY

Everything we do really stems from being record collectors rather than musicians. I suppose that's w...
BOB STANLEY

We got word that they're looting on Jefferson Highway, which is our neighborhood. We've quit worryin...
BOB STANLEY

nothing to complain about, and a lot to be thankful for.
BOB STANLEY

I knew him a lot of years in grade school,
BOB STANLEY

They are struggling a little in the big leagues and they are trying to get guys to the higher level ...
BOB STANLEY

How he can even think about saying that, with what was going on that night, tells me it was on his m...
BOB STANLEY

He relies mostly on his fastball and slider. He has a curve and a change-up, but doesn't get a chanc...
BOB STANLEY

We're very excited about Rick because he brings a wealth of experience and is very high on fundament...
BOB STANLEY

Johnny Pesky always said I would rather be lucky than good. We were lucky against California and not...
BOB STANLEY

I felt a part of it in some ways, not as a teammate, but as a former player who spent his whole care...
BOB STANLEY

I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with deno...
STANLEY HAUERWAS

I think ageing demographics is a bigger issue in China than people think. And the problems it create...
STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER

Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace an...
CHARLES STANLEY

You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number...
ANDY STANLEY

Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourse...
ANDY STANLEY

You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more p...
STANLEY CLARKE

As goods become more standardized - and mass production has that effect, standardizing product - the...
STANLEY MARCUS

Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. S...
STANLEY KUBRICK

Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of th...
STANLEY BALDWIN

Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things,...
STANLEY SPENCER

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put yo...
STANLEY KUBRICK

From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the ...
STANLEY HAUERWAS

There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't rea...
STANLEY DONEN

Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid t...
STANLEY HAUERWAS

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once ...
STANLEY FISH

I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change the...
STANLEY TUCCI

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the...
STANLEY MARCUS

The Roundhouse was a complete shell. It was absolutely empty, lying derelict for years.
RICHARD STANLEY

I'd like to put together a think tank of people - economists, futurists, city planners, a few de...
STANLEY MARCUS

It was at the department store where people got away from provincialism.
STANLEY MARCUS

The department store was a product of the 19th century and became a very important institution as Am...
STANLEY MARCUS

Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through...
STANLEY HAUERWAS

Maybe it's my age that makes me very conscious of loose threads, but I don't think that'...
STANLEY MARCUS

A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of mood...
STANLEY KUBRICK

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, w...
STANLEY KUNITZ

A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
STANLEY BALDWIN

Religion and atheism will both survive it [the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Time Rice and Andre...
STANLEY KAUFFMANN

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to m...
STANLEY FISH

We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and televis...
CHARLES STANLEY

Whenever I see a stock market explode, six to 12 months later you are in a full blown recovery.
STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet...
CHARLES STANLEY

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back roo...
PAUL STANLEY

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strat...
ANDY STANLEY

Because I direct films, I have to live in a major English-speaking production center. That narrows i...
STANLEY KUBRICK

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have...
STANLEY CROUCH

The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I th...
PAUL STANLEY

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a...
STANLEY KUBRICK

The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, ...
STANLEY HAUERWAS

All of these things are going to converge, forcing strategists to raise estimates for this year and ...
STANLEY NABI

When rock & roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel.
PAUL STANLEY

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times...
STANLEY TUCCI

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting you...
PAUL STANLEY

Christian salvation consists in works. To be saved is to be made holy. To be saved requires our bein...
STANLEY HAUERWAS

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?
STANLEY KUBRICK

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.
CHARLES STANLEY

Part of my advantage is that my strength is economic forecasting, but that only works in free market...
STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a real...
STANLEY HAUERWAS

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.
STANLEY CROUCH

Running a fashion business takes the heart of a good gambler. You're always dealing with new thi...
STANLEY MARCUS

I believe that good investors are successful not because of their IQ, but because they have an inves...
STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER

The durable goods report for December was extremely strong. The headline rise of 1.3 percent was dec...
STEPHEN STANLEY

He finished a length behind Laity, and he's 4-1.
MARK STANLEY

It takes more discipline than you might imagine to think, even for thirty seconds, in the noisy, con...
STANLEY KUBRICK

Domestic demand has been nowhere close to strong or impressive.
MORGAN STANLEY

Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a...
STANLEY DONEN

What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.

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What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.

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