Laini Taylor Quotes
And yet, something tied them together, strong than any of that, something with the power to conduct her blood and breath like a symphony, so that anything she did to fight against it felt like discord, like disharmony with her self.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
-
You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
-
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
-
For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
-
I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.
-
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
-
We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
-
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
-
The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
-
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
-
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
-
My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
-
Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
-
September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
-
I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
-
I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
-
I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
-
I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
-
I didn't want to write a cheffy cookbook with dehydrated ham chips.
-
Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
-
You don't need to follow trends to be stylish.
-
Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.
-
When I was growing up, we went to Musikfest every year, and I have vivid memories of the corn on the cob. I'm going for the concert, but I'm really going for the corn.
-
And yet, something tied them together, strong than any of that, something with the power to conduct her blood and breath like a symphony, so that anything she did to fight against it felt like discord, like disharmony with her self.
