Laini Taylor Quotes
This is the story of the curse and the kiss, the demon and the girl. It's a love story with dancing and death in it, and singing and souls and shadows reeled out on kite strings.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
-
When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
-
People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
-
For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
-
Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.
-
I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
-
'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
-
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
-
A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
-
The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
-
Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
-
I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
-
I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
-
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
-
I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
-
Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
-
Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.
-
When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
-
I was in the playground, like, 'Let's imitate the Spice Girls and form a girl group!' I would go home and sing into my hairbrush and act like Britney Spears. I was no Mozart.
-
Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
-
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
-
Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
-
My weakness is 'American Idol.' My husband thinks it's ridiculous. But I am so inspired by those young people who are singing their guts out.
-
This is the story of the curse and the kiss, the demon and the girl. It's a love story with dancing and death in it, and singing and souls and shadows reeled out on kite strings.
