Laini Taylor Quotes
Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?
Quotes to Explore
-
What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
-
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
-
I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
-
I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
-
I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
-
Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
-
To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
-
I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
-
In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
-
I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
-
I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.
-
I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
-
I choose to focus on the positive.
-
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
-
My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
-
I try to write stories that will attract younger readers and make them feel part of a wider readership. I do not feel able to write books that are about, or even for, teenagers; and I am inclined to be suspicious of books which 'target' them.
-
Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
-
I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
-
I really want to take time and be in the moment with my kid for at least the first year. I know she's not going to remember that, but it's really for the family chemistry.
-
For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.
-
I grew up completely alone but with all the comforts of knowing I had a cushioning family structure around me - and yet I could free myself from it.
-
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.
-
Visitor: Monsieur Degas, were there any of Monet's pictures at the Durand-Ruel exhibition?Degas: Why, I met Monet himself there, and I said to him, 'Let me get out of here. Those reflections in the water hurt my eyes!' His pictures were always too draughty for me. If it had been any worse I should have had to turn up my coat collar.
-
Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?
