Quotes About Stanley

Stanley wasn't a good downpour. Nothing wrong with a good downpour for clearing the air. Stanley was the sort of thing you needed a good downpour to clear the air of. Stanley was muggy, close, and oppressive, like someone large and sweaty pressed up against you in a tube train. Stanley didn't rain, but every so often he dribbled on you. Dirk

14th June, 1872.—On 22nd June Stanley was 100 days gone: he must be in London now.

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.

Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.

In 1883 Stanley conceived the idea of an alternating-current generator with a secondary feedback circuit: a pair of small extra coils that automatically cut in or out of the circuit to stabilize it whenever the voltage dropped.

Stanley's breakthrough came in studying the Siemens system. He realized, he said, that if he could make an induction coil—a "transformer," he called it now—wired in parallel rather than in series, each coil would operate independently. That arrangement would keep the current steady whatever the demand and even if a component failed.

Stanley and Martin sat in the interrogation room across from Veronica and a lawyer named Bloodsucking Bastard.

Let's start by checking your pulse," said Dr. Arnzin, wrapping the cuff of the blood pressure monitor around Stanley's arm and inflating it. He glanced at the readout and nodded. "No pulse. Good.

It was the Senator's opinion that a good, peppery chicken soup could cure anything, even childbirth, so he cooked up a nice batch for Stanley Thomas's wife.

And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very sexy indeed, but with that added owlish touch that drives you wild.

To her data analysis was the ugly love child of science and Kafka

a Greimas semantic rectangle, a structuralist schema with alchemical ancestry

That is the great pleasure of conspiracy theory—not explanation, but narrative. It is like Scheherazade.

When I finally applied logic to Religion that was when I quit paying after life insurance and quit going

Deciding taste is egotistical, but that's how taste is established, by somebody having the courage to say, 'I don't want to sell that.'

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

Colonialism was also justified by an elaborate ideology, embodied in everything from Kipling's poetry and Stanley's lectures to sermons and books about the shapes of skulls, lazy natives, and the genius of European civilization. And

The new gun, Stanley said, would be "of valuable service in helping civilisation to overcome barbarism." When

fuzzy hair that bristled out on each side above the ears

His spare frame seemed somewhat bowed under the weight of the ponderous dignity which it carried about.

Erle Stanley Gardner

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

Stanley took a shower—if you could call it that, ate dinner—if you could call it that, and went to bed—if you could call his smelly and scratchy cot a bed.