Stephen King Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

  Stephen King

  Smart, Mean, People

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 15, 2014

• Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

  Stephen King

  People, Saint, Three

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 07, 2014

• I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.

  Stephen King

  Earth, Gigs, Stealing

  Stephen King (1999). “Bag of Bones”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

• Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.

  Stephen King

  Earth, Fool, Dark Tower

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

• Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.

  Stephen King

  Teaching, Kids, Feelings

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

• If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

  Stephen King

  Evil, Earth, Deeds

  Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

• You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.

  Stephen King

  Father, Writing, Kids

  Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

• Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned.

  Stephen King

  People, Earth, Hardest

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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