Quote by Stephen King

Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's just one of those mystery facts.

Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's

Summary

This quote suggests that people tend to place trust in someone wearing a raincoat, even though the reason for this remains unknown. It highlights the peculiar nature of the human experience, where certain things become accepted as cultural norms without any logical explanation. It emphasizes how trust can sometimes be influenced by external factors or appearances, regardless of their relevance or actual significance in reality. Overall, the quote captures the enigmatic and irrational aspects of human behavior and societal expectations.

Topics

Inspiration

By Stephen King

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality g

These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Chastity

But what is ? What is ?The words and do not denote any reall

But what is ? What is ?The words and do not denote any really existing thing and therefore cannot be defined. Those words only denote a certain stage of understanding of phenomena. I do not know why a certain event occurs; I think that I cannot know it; so I do not try to know it and I talk about . I see a force producing effects beyond the scope of ordinary human agencies; I do not understand why this occurs and I talk of .To a heard of rams, that ram the herdsman dries each evening into a special enclosure to feed, and that becomes twice as fat as the others, must seem to be a genius.

Perspective

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will tak

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

Lawrence Lessig

Government

I love South American food, and I haven't really been down t

I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.

Food

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the ri

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

Jean de la Bruyere

Generosity

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human bein

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Charlotte Bronte

What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had

What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I.

Christopher Shays

Health

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Mistakes

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

Good

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but b

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.

Poetry Emotion

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth ch

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

Truth

And let's dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so man

And let's dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.

Life People Man Countrylife