Stephen Furst quote: "I tell people I'm on a diet. If somebody sees me with a muffin, they'll think I'm off my diet. It's like secret little police that I've made for myself."

I'll make a diet cheesecake, but I'll put it in a Sara Lee box. Or I'll have a huge bowl...
STEPHEN FURST

The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.
STEPHEN FURST

When my parents died, they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases, one b...
STEPHEN FURST

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me ...
STEPHEN FURST

I finally admitted that obesity and diabetes were part of a life-threatening legacy - and I had to d...
STEPHEN FURST

I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn&#...
STEPHEN FURST

When I auditioned for 'Animal House,' I had only done some plays at a local dinner theater i...
STEPHEN FURST

Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibi...
STEPHEN FURST

I felt different from everyone else - like an alien. The looks I received when I was 320 pounds were...
STEPHEN FURST

You can eat a lot more vegetables than you can cotton candy. Bring on the veggies. Stay away from th...
STEPHEN FURST

The best Paris I know now is in my head.
ALAN FURST

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that...
ALAN FURST

I look for the dark story, where something secret was done. I read and read and pick up the trail of...
ALAN FURST

Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the l...
ALAN FURST

Venice has always fascinated me. Every country in Europe then was run by kings and the Vatican excep...
ALAN FURST

When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible...
ALAN FURST

I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - complet...
ALAN FURST

I invented the historical spy novel.
ALAN FURST

I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentat...
ALAN FURST

I am a historian. I do a lot of research, and I try to get it right.
ALAN FURST

You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But ...
ALAN FURST

Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's convi...
ALAN FURST

I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boile...
ALAN FURST

For John le Carre, it was always who's betraying who: the hall-of-mirrors kind of thing. When yo...
ALAN FURST

Seattle's support system got me through those early, difficult years. It was a very funky, very ...
ALAN FURST

I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great...
ALAN FURST

Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in ...
ALAN FURST

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.
ALAN FURST

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.
ALAN FURST

My grandmother, whom I adored, and who partly raised me, loved Liberace, and she watched Liberace ev...
ALAN FURST

If you read the history of the national Socialist party, they're all people who felt like life s...
ALAN FURST

I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign corr...
ALAN FURST

Le Carre's voice - patrician, cold, brilliant and amused - was perfect for the wilderness-of-mir...
ALAN FURST

Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.
ALAN FURST

I don't work Sunday any more... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yours...
ALAN FURST

If I'm a genre writer, I'm at the edge. In the end, they do work like genre fiction. You hav...
ALAN FURST

Poland is a wildly dramatic and tragic story. It's just unbelievable what went on with those peo...
ALAN FURST

When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality.
ALAN FURST

Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.
ALAN FURST

My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ...
ALAN FURST

When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Green...
ALAN FURST

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writ...
ALAN FURST

I just became what I call an 'anti-fascist novelist.' There is no word that covers both the ...
ALAN FURST

I'm not really a mass market writer.
ALAN FURST

The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
MERRICK FURST

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.
ALAN FURST

I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insuranc...
ALAN FURST

I've never lived in Eastern Europe, although both my wife and I have ancestors in Poland and Rus...
ALAN FURST

For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I...
ALAN FURST

I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and po...
ALAN FURST

I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic ...
ALAN FURST

Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean,...
ALAN FURST

A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Oth...
ALAN FURST

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.
ALAN FURST

I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.
ALAN FURST

At least, he thought, looking down at his feet, his socks were still in decent shape. It was the soc...
ALAN FURST

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
STEPHEN B. STEPHEN LEACOCK

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?
STEPHEN KING

And things were back to normal except we were just friends.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wo...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too swe...
STEPHEN KING

[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.
STEPHEN KING

It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go...
STEPHEN KING

Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.
STEPHEN BISHOP

He's a wallflower.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. An...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it "Chops"...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
STEPHEN KING

It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that ...
STEPHEN HAWKING

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives...
STEPHEN HAWKING

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
STEPHEN KING

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get m...
STEPHEN LEACOCK

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral...
STEPHEN LEACOCK

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harv...
STEPHEN COVEY

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even g...
STEPHEN COVEY

Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simp...
STEPHEN BAYLEY

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, ...
STEPHEN COVEY

The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
STEPHEN COVEY

Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the...
STEPHEN BAYLEY

It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of sta...
STEPHEN BAYLEY

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it...
STEPHEN COVEY

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understan...
STEPHEN ROBERTS

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas...
STEPHEN WRIGHT

Cats are magical. . .the more you pet them the longer you both live.
STEPHEN KING

I am your number one fan.
STEPHEN KING

There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will l...
STEPHEN FRY

I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY

I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged Kin...
STEPHEN LEACOCK

Seek first to understand, and then to be understood.
STEPHEN COVEY

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to...
STEPHEN COVEY

This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks mea...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
STEPHEN HAWKING

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
STEPHEN COVEY

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the othe...
STEPHEN WRIGHT

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-p...
SAINT STEPHEN

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of ou...
STEPHEN HARPER

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heave...
STEPHEN HAWKING

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.
SAINT STEPHEN

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder...
STEPHEN COVEY

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if ...
STEPHEN COVEY

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn...
STEPHEN HAWKING

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they&...
STEPHEN KING

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He's given me, for my family who s...
STEPHEN CURRY

I can't jump the highest. I'm obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.
STEPHEN CURRY

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through...
STEPHEN CURRY

This is not a bad life.
STEPHEN KING

What people want, above all, is order.
STEPHEN GARDINER

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public bu...
STEPHEN GARDINER

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside w...
STEPHEN GARDINER

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives muc...
STEPHEN GARDINER

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.
STEPHEN HAWKING

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't preve...
STEPHEN HAWKING

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions ...
STEPHEN COVEY

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
STEPHEN HAWKING

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
STEPHEN HAWKING

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.
STEPHEN HAWKING

I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write t...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
STEPHEN HAWKING

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.
STEPHEN HAWKING

There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world.
STEPHEN HAWKING

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be ...
STEPHEN HAWKING

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to d...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in t...
STEPHEN HAWKING

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but wor...
STEPHEN HAWKING

There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people.
STEPHEN HAWKING

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible su...
STEPHEN HAWKING

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
STEPHEN KING

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn...
STEPHEN COLBERT

Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has e...
STEPHEN HARPER

Even my pathological love of Japan and its beauties, glories and eccentricities is sorely tested by ...
STEPHEN HUNTER

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the p...
STEPHEN COVEY

Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build ...
STEPHEN KINZER

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of ...
STEPHEN KING

People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren B...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, h...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Samarkand, with its magnificent mosques, tombs and dazzling ensembles of ceramic tiles, is still one...
STEPHEN KINZER

I'm an atheist.
STEPHEN HAWKING

Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limi...
STEPHEN HAWKING

The true mystery of the JFK assassination isn't 'How could the bullet go through two people ...
STEPHEN HUNTER

TSX-002 will reinforce Aspen's pipeline, further bolstering its presence in a key therapeutic ar...
STEPHEN SAAD

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
LESLIE STEPHEN

The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as...
STEPHEN HUNTER

I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. It was my first popular bo...
STEPHEN HAWKING

There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more ad...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, b...
STEPHEN GRAHAM

'The Simpsons' appearances were great fun. But I don't take them too seriously. I think ...
STEPHEN HAWKING

I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of...
STEPHEN COLBERT

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and ye...
STEPHEN KING

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which canno...
STEPHEN LEACOCK

'Shall We Dance?' takes a small, exquisite Japanese movie and turns it into a big, stupid Am...
STEPHEN HUNTER

I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core, ra...
STEPHEN BALDWIN

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we...
STEPHEN COVEY

A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statemen...
STEPHEN COVEY

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your fe...
STEPHEN KING

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small ...
STEPHEN KING

The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got i...
STEPHEN COLE

God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with...
STEPHEN CROTTS

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRY

Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is bein...
STEPHEN KINZER

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literatu...
STEPHEN STILLS

As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other ...
STEPHEN KINZER

Basketball is booming, and it's not just an Under Armour standpoint: it's about the game its...
STEPHEN CURRY

Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is s...
STEPHEN FRY

I used to be an atheist, but I've chilled out a bit on that.
STEPHEN MOYER

I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.
STEPHEN KING

never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.
STEPHEN KING

We all float down here!
STEPHEN KING

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.
STEPHEN KING

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
STEPHEN KING

That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
STEPHEN KING

I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, tha...
STEPHEN KING

I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and t...
STEPHEN FRY

Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their...
STEPHEN KINZER

Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good w...
STEPHEN FREARS

I'm an adrenaline junkie. I love climbing crazy trees or cliffs, which doesn't make my mom v...
STEPHEN COLLETTI

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.
STEPHEN FRY

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degr...
STEPHEN COVEY

The aim of this rise is to cause consumers to stop spending and borrowing and it will work in that d...
STEPHEN KOUKOULAS

I wrote a song, but I can't read music. Every time I hear a new song on the radio I think, "Hey, may...
STEPHEN WRIGHT

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't
STEPHEN LEACOCK

I'm always worried with the consensus being unambiguously strong and unrelenting in the view they ho...
STEPHEN KOUKOULAS

The Colbert Report
STEPHEN COLBERT

My fear is that Bush is trying to define 'compassionate conservatism' as a willingness to spend mone...
STEPHEN MOORE

Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it...
STEPHEN WRIGHT

Google is this era's transformational computing platform and could be about
to unseat Microso...
STEPHEN ARNOLD

My apartment was robbed and everything was replaced with exact replicas...I told my roommate and he ...
STEPHEN WRIGHT

I tell people I'm on a diet. If somebody sees me with a muffin, they'll think I'm off my diet. It's like secret little police that I've made for myself.

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I tell people I'm on a diet. If somebody sees me with a muffin, they'll think I'm off my diet. It's like secret little police that I've made for myself.

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