#steven

The famed author Robert Lewis Stevenson declared that he'd trained his Brownies to be writers. As he slept, they would whisper fantastic plots in his ear -- for example, the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and the diabolical Mr. Hyde, and that episode in "Olalla" when a young man from an old Spanish family bites his sister's hand. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#robert-louis-stevenson #writing #family

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

#genius #people #right #right thing #right time

You see, there was this man, and he was a good man; he worked hard and did everything to the best of his ability. All he desired was for the most beautiful woman in the kingdom to be his wife. Now this wasn't all bad because she actually loved him too--very much so--but this vizier, he wanted her as well and not for so noble a cause as love." "What did he want her for?" Yashar paused for a moment. "So that people could look at him and say, 'He must be a great man to have such a beautiful wife.'" "Oh. I thought he wanted her for sex," said Colby, disappointed. ↗

— C. Robert Cargill

#colby-stevens #sex #yashar #beauty

I love Steven Wright. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#i love #love #steven #wright

I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#first #first time #gone #had #how

I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors. ↗

— Joe Pantoliano

#directors #get #hired #i #proud

I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#any #being #go #i #life

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#connects #fear #giant #lizard #lost