Gertrude Stein Quotes

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Gertrude Stein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946

Topics

GratitudeSilentMuchVeryAnyone

Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.

Joan Blades

VotingLongTrailTouchScreenFine

I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.

John Goodman

New YorkNewStartedArizonaJust

I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.

John Legend

FeelMusiciansCompetitiveLikeMany

It's great to make strong, powerful films, but in terms of people wanting to finance them, it's also very difficult.

John Hillcoat

GreatFinancePeopleStrongPowerful

I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father's case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.

Angus Deaton

EducationFatherMotherAgeHistory

We're stronger than we realize.

Jeannette Walls

StrongerRealizeThan

To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.

John Quincy Adams

TimeHabitBibleReadingYouFail

I'm a great fan of taking my laptop out and about.

Sophie Kinsella

GreatOutLaptopFanTakingAbout

I do not forecast playing until 38 or 39.

Toni Kroos

ForecastPlayingUntil

Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.

Robert Crumb

MoneyMePicturesSpecialThings

I get to do the Dakar Rally. I get to do the Daytona 500. I get to do the Indy 500. I'm very fortunate to get to do these things.

Robby Gordon

ThingsFortunateGetRallyIndy

Trajectories aren't linear. Life's just a roller coaster. If you're getting a chance to do cool stuff, and it's varied stuff, just enjoy it. I guess I'm a believer in the randomness of life rather than it being a linear trajectory or an arc, a consistent smooth arc, towards anything.

Riz Ahmed

LifeCoolChanceEnjoyYouAnything

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