Sam Stone > Sam's Quotes

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
― George Orwell

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Road to hell paved in unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am.”
― Joey Ramone

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

“You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?”
― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

“A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
― Winston Churchill

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
― Winston Churchill

“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
― Sir Winston Churchill

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition”
― Rudyard Kipling

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft