Beth Ostrosky Stern Quotes

Dogs are forever in the push up postion.

My personality is up and down, sassy and cheeky.

I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs.

She is deranged, but so so playful.

As God contains all good things, He must also contain a sense of playfulness -- a gift he has shared with Creatures other than ourselves, as witness the tricks Crows play, and the sportiveness of Squirrels, and the frolicking of Kittens.

Cats are unpredictable because they're wild and domestic at the same time. Watching a cat's behavior is like a small window into the wild.

Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.

I'm a barrel of monkeys, kid, though mostly I figure monkeys stuck in a barrel are just going to be pissed off.

Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it.

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.

He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising.

For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.

Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.

In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.

It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

Live nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day.

I’m still very much a kid inside myself.

The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.

It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.

Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.

Well, I quite like animals, but theyre unpredictable. I mean, look at old whats-his-name in Vegas. Tiger dragged him off the stage, you know? The guy brought up tigers. Theyre quite unpredictable.

Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash.

Making a movie is a weird combination of planning and the absolutely unexpected.

The true object of human life is play.