Elizabeth Moon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
-
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
-
If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
-
I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
-
I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
-
All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
-
I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
-
Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
-
I want to have an impact on my son.
-
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
-
I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.
-
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
-
I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
-
The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
-
Tech never comes back the same.
-
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
-
If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
-
I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
-
My mum's a bouncy, energetic, driven, crazy woman, and my dad's very relaxed, doesn't say much. I have the best of both worlds in my personality.
-
We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.
-
If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.
-
I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
-
I'm the youngest of eight kids in my family. All tall, we all played basketball, so at my earliest memory, I was bouncing a ball in the backyard.
-
It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.
