WN Stanley Quotes

Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church.

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

Everybody who belongs to Christ belongs to everybody who belongs to Christ

God doesn't have any grandchildren.

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.

Now listen, Lam," he said, "you’re a nice egg but you’ve got yourself poured into the wrong pan.

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.

I love being a member of KISS.

It's a really special night for our fans. It's vindication.

Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'

Virtual reality might be able to give you a way of doing hands-on to construct ideas in a computer.

I guess the first time I played around Washington, D.C. was at a place called The Famous. That was the first place I played, I believe.

I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!

I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is about what people think and how they react.

Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.

I think my favorite for music and spirit is Ray Gomez.

I felt like I was trailblazing. And that's what I did.

Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.

Dogs are just wolves in sheep's clothing.

Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form.

The furthest out is the only place to be.

It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads.

The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.

A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs.

I always believe you have to show the symbolism of a civilization, whether it be the cave drawings or somebody drawing in the sand in Darfur to show a massacre.

These are the kind of things I always zero in. When I was in Rwanda, it was the same thing. You're always zeroing in those details. Not just always the bodies, but what makes up the human being.

Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.

I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.

Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is.

I like an ending that's both a door and a window.

Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.

Forward my mail to Mars.

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes but they were trying to change things.

There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.