"Loose and jocular, Stanley proved to be a master at relating to nightclub audiences"

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Joel Selvin

#Masters Quotes #Stanley Quotes #Audience Quotes

“An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.”

Source : Mark Van Doren (1954*). “Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof”
“Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.”
“The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.”
“You can follow the action, which gets you good pictures. You can follow your instincts, which will probably get you in trouble. Or, you can follow the money, which nine times out of ten will get you closer to the truth.”
“You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster”
“If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there's about one way you can make it sound: like an oboe.”
“I have always been a firm believer that the game has never belonged to the owners. It has never belonged to the ballplayers. It belongs to the guy who puts his money up on the window and says, 'How much does it cost to sit in the bleachers?' That is who owns baseball. And it has got to be kept that way.”
“Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.”

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