#not

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot. ↗

— Ben Stein

#think #you

It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it. ↗

— Ben Stein

#beautiful #cannot #get #glorious #great

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#always #basic #basic principle #be strong #cannot

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#dangerous #everything #frightening #how #nothing

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#beginning #garden #grows #in the beginning #little

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#any #argument #believing #breathe #cannot

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#duchess #earth #nothing #peasant #sees

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#closed #firmly #great #i #mouth

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#count #four #know #make #men

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#california #growing #growing up #hockey #knew