Quotes of: Stevenson Keyword

To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.

Richard Dawkins

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.

Complete Verse

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

Mercedes McCambridge

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

Billy Corgan

Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.

Emma McLaughlin

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.

Jane Birkin

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

Enid Bagnold

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

Hilary Mantel

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

Terry Pratchett

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Bluebeard's Egg

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

Louis L'Amour

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

L. Neil Smith

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

Paul Krugman

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

George Eliot

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

William Blake

When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.

William Sanderson

Having already had one glorious marriage, perhaps I ought to count myself lucky and stop while I'm ahead.

Judith McNaught

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

Ariel Gore

Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South America to the Galapagos Islands.

Richard Dawkins