Home » Quote » Gertrude Stein » „If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.“ „If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.“ — Gertrude Stein Related quotes „Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator?“ — Charles de Gaulle „I knew it would be you“ — Charles Bukowski „You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud.“ — Thich Nhat Hanh „If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius.“ — Michelangelo Buonarroti „God made all his creations in different colors. It would be pretty boring if we all looked the same.“ — Ronald Reagan „I dictated my report; forty recruitments all okayed by the Psych Bureau — counting my own, which I knew would be okayed. I was here, wasn't I? Then I taped a request for assignment to operations; I was sick of recruiting.“ — Robert A. Heinlein „That's not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people would lead better lives."IF PEOPLE KNEW WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO DIE, I THINK THEY PROBABLY WOULDN'T LIVE AT ALL.“ — Terry Pratchett „But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.“ — Ernest Hemingway