Stephanie Quotes

With great effort comes great gratification.

I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.

Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.

The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.

It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.

I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting.

There are some people in life that you can't get over.

I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.

I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [...]

Your heart matters most, so be gentler and more patient with yourself, and their hearts matter most, too, so be kinder and more compassionate to others.

Happiness was my choice, and though it is hard-won, I am the only person who can stand in the way of it.

Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.

I am passionate about women's empowerment and women's ways.

It's far too easy to qualify as an eccentric nowadays.

It's ridiculous how difficult a question can be when the answer means so much.

Given the diverse raiment life sports, one never knows what the guises of the gods may be.

Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?

Recent rampage is a function of the exponential growth of populations and economies. It has to do with globalization and the steady increase in computational power.

It would be more concerned with the Whole than the parts and has to proceed from the premise that death and pain, short life spans, and no bread without sweat must be accepted.

Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.

I'm not interested in making what's easy. I'm interested in making what's beautiful.

Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling.

Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.

Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.

Boys turns girls into such idiots.

Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.

How could I have ever for a moment believed I wasn't in love with him?

My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.

A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may.

I am hard on myself. But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself?

Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old.

You read a lot. - Safer than going on a real adventure

I don’t understand why things always go from perfect to weird with us. It’s like we’re incapable of normal human interaction.

Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within the story.

I wish the world would swallow us here, whole, in this moment. And that's when it hits me that this - this - is falling in love.

What’d I tell you about musicians? That bad boy type will only break your heart.

What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice.

You can't be twenty-four hours of just Bush-bashing.

Could you do a liberal propaganda tool that would bore the bejesus out of people? No.

When it comes to Hillary Clinton, it is really about mobilizing and energizing women voters to turn out to the polls.

At the presidential level, everybody knows that Hillary Clinton is going to stand up for women's reproductive rights.

The stunt team were great on Defiance. They were there, every day.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

The sets on 'Defiance' are incredible. I've never really seen a set like this, where the world is so built around us. There's not too much left for us to have to imagine.

The contrast between Hillary Clinton, a champion for women and families versus Donald Trump who has alienated women across the country with his offensive and insulting rhetoric, could not be clearer.

Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night.

Having a trade deficit and a budget deficit, it's two different things.

What's it like going back? Fun and sexy. That's the point. It's - the only reason to go back to an old boyfriend is because you think hmm, maybe.

The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.