China Mieville Quotes

I love monsters.

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• If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • American
  • Know

• I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Want
  • Speak
  • Find

• Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Gay

• As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Political
  • Focus
  • Evil

• Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • I Can

• First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Laugh

• In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Moments
  • Made
  • Quiet

• Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Like
  • Sometimes
  • Little

• The one thing about art is you can't question it. Everyone is looking at everyone else to find out what's cool. No one knows what's cool.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Art
  • Question
  • Cool

• The whole concept of witches was that women were speaking up for themselves and fighting for their rights. The whole concept of witchcraft came into play to hold down women and women's empowerment.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Up
  • Women
  • Fighting

• Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.

  

  Carl Honore
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • May
  • Earth
  • Question

• Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • May
  • True

• Pre-history tells us that our species used to be a hunter-gatherer society. This means that the job of raising a family was split 50-50 between the men and the women - the man's 50 percent share was to sit in the woods with a sharp stick, waiting for something to hunt to wander by, and the woman's 50 percent was to do everything else.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Life
  • Love
  • Respect

• There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Good
  • English
  • Boy

• I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Music
  • Like
  • Write

• Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Leadership
  • Precepts
  • Lincoln`s

• I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are very high and they are not bound by moral codes or being ethical, so they can do anything and will do anything to get what they want.

  

  Donna Murphy
  • High
  • Moral

• In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• If a show is a critical success but a ratings flop, I assume that people are just championing the show because it looks cool to root for an underdog.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • People
  • Success
  • Cool

• I love monsters.

  

  China Mieville