Elizabeth Moon Quotes
People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.
Quotes to Explore
-
Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
-
It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
-
There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
-
I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
-
My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
-
I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
-
When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around black people; they will really tell how they feel about white people regardless of the fact that I'm also white and have white relatives. It's very interesting and can be really hard.
-
Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
-
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
-
I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.
-
Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
-
I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
-
I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
-
I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
-
I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
-
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
-
I hate wasting people's time.
-
I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
-
We never pull down the quality of the product, and I think that pays in the long term. People come up to me and say, 'I'm still wearing a Missoni sweater from 30 years ago, and it still looks great.' So quality, specificity and passion.
-
I've seen things change and people forget: the history of Berlin, the history of queer struggle, the history of AIDS, the history of New York changing from an artistic powerhouse to more of a financial one now.
-
Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
-
For me, it's about the tennis and the trophies. I'm not motivated by money.
-
I don't believe in making five-year plans. I don't want to say, "Yes, I want to have children in the next five years," because I don't know. I've always known that I'd like to be a mom, but I don't want to live by a schedule. If I did, I wouldn't be living in the moment.
-
People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.
