All Quotes

The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.
‐‐ Jo Nesbo

The stock prices of networking equipment companies like Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks sometimes seem as if they are priced for perpetual success.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

The Stockholm street style is distinctive, with ensembles that exemplify the city's understated elegance.
‐‐ Aslaug Magnusdottir

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
‐‐ Elizabeth I

The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.
‐‐ Julius Wellhausen

The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.
‐‐ Paul McCartney

The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
‐‐ Bill Wyman

The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.
‐‐ Mick Taylor

The Stones can get out there and do it till they're old men. But certain groups are sad-looking to me.
‐‐ Toni Tennille

The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.
‐‐ Mick Taylor

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
‐‐ Keith Richards

The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because it's cheaper for the company to get them from India, where the labor is free. We are all connected. And we all have human value. That's what my work is about.
‐‐ Lisa Kristine

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.
‐‐ Andy Goldsworthy

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
‐‐ Erica Jong

The Stones were always exemplary of one of the best of all rock qualities: tightness. They have always been economical, the opposite of ornamental. Having a very clear idea of what they wanted to say they could go into a studio and make it all up on a three minute cut.
‐‐ Jon Landau

The Stones were more dangerous than other bands of the Sixties. It looked like they had more fun than the Beatles - like they stayed up later.
‐‐ Alex Lifeson

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.
‐‐ Robert Quine

The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
‐‐ Edmund White

'The Stooges' used to be ubiquitous, back in the '60s and '70s. They were on TV all the time, but they're not on so much anymore. Kids aren't getting the chance to watch them, not to mention the fact that kids don't really necessarily relate to black-and-white stuff.
‐‐ Chris Diamantopoulos

The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.
‐‐ George Richards Minot

The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
‐‐ Daley Thompson

The store experience must become a performance, with the energy and precision of a Broadway play.
‐‐ Richard Hayne

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.
‐‐ Jimmy Buffett

The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.
‐‐ Henry Giroux

The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.
‐‐ Leslie Moonves

The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science, science journalism, and science fiction were born.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

The stories about the life and teachings of Jesus were mainly told in Greek, the original language of the gospels.
‐‐ Jay Parini

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
‐‐ Alice Munro

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.
‐‐ Casey Kasem

The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.
‐‐ Bob Shacochis

The stories are what they are in my head. They take their own course and refuse to be influenced by anything or anybody. So I just record what I see and hope that people like it.
‐‐ Jessica Bird

The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.
‐‐ Ken Burns

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.
‐‐ Azar Nafisi

The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.
‐‐ Kerry Greenwood

The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.
‐‐ Molly Antopol

The stories I'm interested in are challenging ones, and maybe that requires a little bit more of you. I love my job and I want to earn the right to do it every single day.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.
‐‐ Mark Mothersbaugh

The stories in 'Jim the Boy' are either made up or appropriated from some source other than my family. But the idea of a family telling stories to the kid, often to impart some kind of lesson, that's very familiar, and that's the way that I grew up.
‐‐ Tony Earley

The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.
‐‐ Jason Katims

The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was staggering.
‐‐ Erin Gruwell

The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews... those are the stories of my life. I am telling the stories of my life in a true way.
‐‐ Joe Bastianich

The stories on 'The Cosby Show' transcend time.
‐‐ Keshia Knight Pulliam

The stories that are out and the things that have been published are a sample of my interests. There are genres and sub-genres that I haven't waded into but have wanted to, or have waded into in other places but never actually written.
‐‐ Greg Rucka

The stories that engaged me as a kid were all science fiction. Later, it turned out that I didn't have the language to talk about what was bothering me in a way that was straightforward.
‐‐ Chris Adrian

The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.
‐‐ Eric Balfour

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.
‐‐ Nicole Holofcener

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.
‐‐ Derrick Jensen