Top 323 Stern Quotes & Sayings

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

I thank God every night for David Stern.

Stern men with empires in their brains.

Howard Stern was the only one that was able to get through to me.

Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.

I think every basketball player I know loves ping pong. Everyone played in on the Dream Team. I played Clyde Drexler and Chris Mullin and even David Stern once. David Stern saw I was pretty good.

Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.

Going on 'Howard Stern' was embarrassing.

In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

History is a stern judge.

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

I have no desire to spend my off-hours listening to other shows. Unless it's Howard Stern, of course.

Stern and critical, my father couldn't accept how feminine and dainty I was in comparison to my rough-and-tumble brother.

I'm from New York, so I'm a big Howard Stern fan.

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.

I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

My husband, Howard Stern, is very good at giving gifts.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Howard Stern is one of my idols.

Stern is the visage of necessity.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

I look very serious. I look stern even when I'm not stern. If I'm not feeling cross, I look a little bit cross. I can't help it. It's just my face.

The Jews are the conscience of the world. They are the father figures, stern, critical, and forbidding.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be.

I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness.

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.

Dreams are nervy things—all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.

Because I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief.

I think if I tried to be the stern parent, we would have slipped into Cinderella mode - with me as the evil stepmother!

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. G.B. Stern "If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."

Mountains are nature's testimonials of anguish. They are the sharp cry of a groaning and travailing creation. Nature's stern agony writes itself on these furrowed brows of gloomy stone. These reft and splintered crags stand, the dreary images of patient sorrow, existing verdureless and stern because exist they must.

We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

I love to listen to Howard Stern with the guy who drives me.

I was against the war in Iraq.The record shows that I'm right. When I did an interview with Howard Stern.

The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.

What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.

People talk, 'Oh your father's a misogynist, look what he said about women,' like, on 'Howard Stern.' When he gets with Howard Stern, who's a friend of his, he'll joke around, because it's a comedy show. He's allowed to have a personality.

Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.

The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.

Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.

Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.