Gertrude Stein Quotes

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

Gertrude Stein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble.

John Waters

EducationFatherMotherSchoolMe

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!

John Philip Sousa

SpiritualColdChillMoreAudience

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Socrates

FearReverenceWhereBecauseThan

Entering politics is a fate worse than death.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

PoliticsDeathFateWorseThan

South Africa is a whole other world. I went to grade school there and high school in Johannesburg, and before that, my family lived in Kenya in Nairobi where my brother was actually born, and my sister was born in Capetown. I spent the first 10 years of my life in South Africa.

Jann Klose

LifeFamilySchoolBrotherSister

I bring forward stories from the lives of everyday Americans: those whose path hasn't been set out on easy street or who haven't been given it all, those who are actually forging ahead because of their own personal resources, their moxie, their survival instincts.

Debra Granik

WorkChallengeMeRiseQuietDone

The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.

Christina Romer

FuturePeopleStock MarketWealth

When I read, I'm purely a reader.

Anne Tyler

ReadReaderPurely

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

William S. Paley

WorkGodPowerLimitsOutWithin

You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza.

Scott M. Gimple

PizzaSupportPeopleImpossibleYou

Suffering does not discriminate.

Shania Twain

SufferingDiscriminateDoes

I like to delude myself that I'm in the old-Hollywood mode. I just tailor my clothes well and try to keep my skin clear. While it would be great to work out an hour a day, there is something inherently sort of selfish about it. I can't do it.

Tina Fey

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