Gene Wolfe Quotes

It’s easy-very easy-to slay a ruler. But it’s very difficult to prevent a worse one from coming to his place.

Gene Wolfe

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• Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • People
  • Character
  • Green

• At age 26, I was chairman of UB Group but living like a 26-year-old. I lived my age. Which youngster doesn't like a Ferrari? Which youngster doesn't like a good time?... but my contemporaries were R. S. Goenka and Dhirubhai Ambani, captains of the industry but twice my age. You wouldn't necessarily expect them to be driving around in Ferraris.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Time
  • Good
  • Age

• I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • World
  • Employer

• I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
  • Dance
  • Thought

• Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Bad
  • Ideas

• I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Just
  • Watched

• I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Want

• I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fear

• Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Constitution
  • Interfere

• I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Important
  • Love
  • Treat

• I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Different
  • Military
  • Attitude

• I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Chicago

• With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • You
  • Hair
  • See

• Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Fun
  • You
  • Some

• Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Children

• It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • War
  • Violence
  • Dance

• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Men

• Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating.

  

  Scotty Bowman
  • Funny
  • Fighting
  • Figures

• It’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.

  

  Clayton M. Christensen
  • Time

• I started my business with my best friend from high school.

  

  Dave Goldberg
  • School
  • Business
  • High

• I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Think

• I basically wake up at five in the morning and grab coffee and just get to the studio. And I have a list of things I need to get done every day. Sometimes it's just mixing, sometimes it's actually writing, sometimes it's writing, recording, and mixing. It all depends on what is necessary that day.

  

  Adrian Younge
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Done

• It’s easy-very easy-to slay a ruler. But it’s very difficult to prevent a worse one from coming to his place.

  

  Gene Wolfe