Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
Gertrude Stein
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
Art Collector
Author
Autobiographer
Collector
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Salonnière
Writer
Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
Gertrude Stein
Replace
Simply
Head
Lines
Anything
Something
Make
More quotes by Gertrude Stein
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
Gertrude Stein
Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.
Gertrude Stein
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
I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
Gertrude Stein
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
Gertrude Stein
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
Gertrude Stein
A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.
Gertrude Stein
If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
Gertrude Stein
A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.
Gertrude Stein
Two things are always the same the dance and war.
Gertrude Stein
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Gertrude Stein
If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.
Gertrude Stein
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
Gertrude Stein
The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.
Gertrude Stein
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Gertrude Stein
You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
Gertrude Stein
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
Gertrude Stein
I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
Gertrude Stein
Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
Gertrude Stein
One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.
Gertrude Stein
