Quotes about stay page 8
Robert James Waller (1939–2017) American writer
Source: The Bridges Of Madison County
“Some things simply were too true to stay. Some merely came to visit for a while.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“I looked at the canine companion. “Me cookies. You stay.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
“It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.”
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Strikes
“I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wakeup letter.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman
“Things that have form will all disappear. But certain feelings stay with us forever.”
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Slays
“If I'm smart then I'll run away, but I'm not so I guess I'll stay”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
Source: Madonna: Greatest Hits: Piano - Vocal - Chords
“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
“There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.”
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
William Faulkner book As I Lay Dying
Variant: ... the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
Source: As I Lay Dying
“Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
Ellen Goodman (1941) American journalist and writer
Attributed
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author
Source: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
“Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
"Politics Getting Ready to Jell" <!-- p. 265 -->
The Illiterate Digest (1924)
Context: Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.
“Adrian sighed. "I knew you staying out of trouble was too good to be true.”
Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice
Source: Last Sacrifice
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
Stephen Crane (1871–1900) American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist
Source: Complete Poems of Stephen Crane
“Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Shirley Jackson book The Haunting of Hill House
Source: The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
Context: This house, which seemed somehow to have formed itself, flying together into its own powerful pattern under the hands of its builders, fitting itself into its own construction of lines and angles, reared its great head back against the sky without concession to humanity. It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.
Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
“When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?”
Maya Banks (1964) Author
Source: Hidden Away
“Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.
I don’t know how to be without you.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Source: City of Ashes
“stay with the beer.
beer is continuous blood.
a continuous lover.”
Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“Things couldn't stay the same forever.”
Jenny Han (1980) American writer
Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: The Strange Power
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing
“The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever”
Sofia Coppola (1971) screenwriter and director from the United States
Source: Lost in Translation
“Staying silent, staying away from him… that was the hardest thing I've ever done.”
Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian
Source: The Last Olympian
“I just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
“Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.”
Richelle Mead book Frostbite
Source: Frostbite
Sarah Dessen book Just Listen
Variant: because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. no matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment.
Source: Just Listen
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1963, Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt
Variant: Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Documents on International Affairs, 1963, Royal Institute of International Affairs, ed. Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett, p. 36.
Andrew Sullivan (1963) Journalist, writer, blogger
"Iraq and Gaza, Ctd" http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/06/iraq_and_gaza_c.html, The Daily Dish (14 June 2007)
Steve Wozniak (1950) American inventor, computer engineer and programmer
Steve Wozniak Debunks One of Apple's Biggest Myths - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJif4i9NRdI <br class="br">Bloomberg Business interview (2014)
Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America
Source: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XV-IXX, Chapter XVII.
Robert Seymour Bridges (1844–1930) British writer
The Growth of Love http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6639&poem=510395, Sonnet 6 (1876). <br class="br">Poetry
“Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.”
Rex Murphy (1947) Canadian journalist
In CBC Newss "At Issue", Oct 1, 2009 edition.
On a French philosopher's defense of Roman Polanski, following the later's arrest in Switzerland and extradition to the US.
Fernand Léger (1881–1955) French painter
quote, 1945
Quote, 1945 of Fernand Leger, in Abstract Painting, Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co., 1964, p. 33
Quotes of Fernand Leger, 1940's
Immortal Technique (1978) American rapper and activist
Harlem Streets
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)
Li Bai (701–762) Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period
"The Summit Temple" (夜宿山寺), in The White Pony: An Anthology of Chinese Poetry from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (1947), p. 173
Buddy Carter (1957) State Senator
Carter: President Trump Made Right Move on DACA https://buddycarter.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2350 (September 5, 2017)
“I would not rape you. You don’t merit that. Stay here to hear this!”
Jair Bolsonaro (1955) Brazilian president elect
To federal deputy Maria do Rosário at the Chamber of Deputies on 9 December 2014. The Most Misogynistic, Hateful Elected Official in the Democacratic World: Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro https://theintercept.com/2014/12/11/misogynistic-hateful-elected-official-democacratic-world-brazils-jair-bolsonaro/. The Intercept (11 December 2014).
John Brunner book The Sheep Look Up
December “A ROOST FOR CHICKENS”
The Sheep Look Up (1972)
Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician
"Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's Message: Globalize or Die", CRN.com, 2005-12-16 http://www.crn.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=HV04UPK5RVOU2QSNDBNCKHSCJUMEKJVN?articleID=174300587 <br class="br">2003–2007 Governor of Massachusetts
Tucker Carlson (1969) American political commentator
Slate magazine, 17 July 1997
Source: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/1997/07/right-wing-journalism-4.html
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
answer to question "Do you inject politics into your music?" www.philpost.com (November 25, 2006)
2007, 2008
Daniel Kahneman (1934) Israeli-American psychologist
Nobel Prize Autobiographical Information http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2002/kahneman-bio.html (2002).
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)