I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life…

I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and…

— Lisa Gardner

Understand what you want, and want it as badly as you can. Make the stakes for yourself as life-or-death as you can.

— Sterling K. Brown

I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows…

— F. Paul Wilson

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely…

— Richard Powers

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore ...…

— Eileen Collins

The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes…

— Carol Higgins Clark

I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

— William Shakespeare

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

— Winston Churchill

We can't take a slipshod and easygoing attitude toward education in this country. And by "we" I don't mean "somebody else," but I mean…

— Henry Ford II

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to…

— Gertrude Stein

The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our…

— Jim Wright

It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire…

— Paul von Hindenburg

Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final…

— Frank B. Wilderson III

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage