Stuart Quotes

“You can only chase a butterfly for so long.”
― Jane Yolen, Prince Across the Water

“And exactly how does a miserable face help the war effort?" he asked sharply, his mood beginning to change. "Will a frown bring back the dead or fortify a town? If I allow myself to laugh in the face of misery, I rest my mind from the stress of it all, and then it'll work the better for you and your war. And if I'm really to be one of your advisers, Your Majesty, accept this piece of advise: Take happiness where and when you find it, because there is going to be precious little of it in the next few months!”
― Stuart Hill, The Cry of the Icemark

“It rang and it rand and it rang. I looked at the screen one last time, then at Stuart, and then I reached my arm back and threw the phone as hard as I could (sadly, not that far), and it vanished into the snow. The eight-year-olds, who were truly fascinated with our every move at this point, chased after it.
'Lost it,' I said. 'Whoops.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end to predominate, is not that which can exist between a capitalist as chief, and work-people without a voice in the management, but the association of the labourers themselves on terms of equality, collectively owning the capital with which they carry on their operations, and working under managers elected and removable by themselves.”
― John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism

“When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprika and dip some lobster in it!”
― Stuart J. Scesney

“At this time of day it should have been open and full of fifty fellow smackheads, crackheads, psychotics, epileptics, schizophrenics, self-harmers, beggars, buskers, car thieves, sherry pushers, ciderheads, just-released-that-morning convicts, ex-army, ex-married-men-with-young-children-who'd-discovered-their-wife-in-bed-with-two-members-of-the-university-rowing-team-at-the-same-time.”
― Alexander Masters, Stuart: A Life Backwards

“He knows,"I said. "I tell him everything"
"Does that go both ways?" he asked.
"Does what go both ways?"
"You said you tell him everything," he replied. "You didn't say we tell each other everything”
― ‎Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprik and dip some lobster in it!”
― Stuart J. Scesney

“When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprike and dip some lobster in it!”
― Stuart J. Scesney

“Have as much fun as you can in life because you never know when it will end.”
― Stuart J. Scesney

“There comes a point when you can only sweep so much under the rug, 'til you feel lumps under your feet and your path seems to become less ccomfortable.”
― Stuart J. Scesney

“There comes a point when you can only sweep so much under the rug, 'til you feel lumps under your feet and your path seems to become less comfortable.”
― Stuart J. Scesney

“Sirrah, thou art a coarse and rough-hewn fellow but i fain noteth thy first name Stewart bears a pleasing w'rding and, thus, lurks a grise of gentle spirit about thy p'rson. Bemock all Stuarts and maketh this keeper of the estate our w'rthy guardian!”
― Stewart Stafford

“And then they came, a troop of horse appearing out of the smoke, great shadows magnified by the sun behind them. Forty horsemen, they came out of the yellow and red sulphu- rous gloom, a host of shapeshifting spectres, barghest wraiths – dread shag gytrash. The riders were faceless, dark shadows in barred steel helmets. But their mounts glared, foamed and tossed their heads as they came on, red and white eyes, bared teeth, nostrils snorting the very smoke they breathed. Over all came the crash and thud of hooves and steel harness.”
― Charles Cordell, God's Vindictive Wrath

“Back in Astra City, he was equally as cold hearted and his choice of words matched his sociopathic soul. Here, in Beta City, he was less focused. Amused at his own evil, playful nature. Camp, almost. What changed him?”
― Kevin Klehr, Virtual Insanity