Quotes by : Gertrude Stein

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.....

I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is....

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing....

I am because my little dog knows me.

A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.