Laini Taylor Quotes
Karou saw them with her human eyes, this army she had rendered more monstrous than ever nature had, and she knew what the world would see in them if they flew to fight the Dominion: demons, nightmares, evil. The sight of the seraphim would be heralded as a miracle. But chimaera? The apocalypse.
Quotes to Explore
-
I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
-
I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
-
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
-
It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
-
I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
-
How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
-
It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
-
All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
-
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
-
When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
-
Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
-
My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
-
It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
-
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
-
The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
-
I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
-
I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
-
Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
-
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
-
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
-
Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.
-
Animation tends to have several different writers who serve different functions. I think, on a lot of animated features, there are a lot of writers who don't get credited. It's the policy at Disney, for instance, in deciding who gets credit. It depends on the writer's contract, so many things.
-
I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear.
-
Karou saw them with her human eyes, this army she had rendered more monstrous than ever nature had, and she knew what the world would see in them if they flew to fight the Dominion: demons, nightmares, evil. The sight of the seraphim would be heralded as a miracle. But chimaera? The apocalypse.
