John Scalzi Quotes

Imagine if every species named itself after its greatest flaw. We could name our species arrogance.

John Scalzi

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• Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Character
  • Success
  • Way

• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Long
  • Nature

• Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Life
  • Television
  • Being

• Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

  

  Sam Brown
  • People
  • You
  • Style

• To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Up
  • Business
  • Today

• Sometimes we do things that are really awful.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Awful

• Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Believe
  • Nobody
  • Jack

• You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Financial
  • Ability

• One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Daughter
  • Greatest
  • Gifts

• The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Living

• The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Important
  • Style
  • Jewelry

• Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • American

• This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Voice
  • Vietnam
  • Capitol

• A soulmate is someone who you could spend a great deal of time with just sitting on a sofa and feel happy. You don't need fanfare. You don't need to go out to expensive restaurants.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Great
  • Happy

• I came from a strong jazz/ singer-songwriter/folk influence, but in L.A., I learned how to have a balance between all these genres and R&B music and hip-hop, mixing them all together.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Together
  • Strong

• People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • People
  • Action
  • Me

• I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.

  

  Edith Head
  • Good
  • She
  • Black

• My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Live
  • Me
  • Medical

• When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Today
  • Beautiful
  • Night

• Sir Walter, being strangely supprized and putt out of his countenance at so great a Table, gives his son a damned blow over the face; his son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face of the Gentleman that sate next to him, and sayed, Box about, 'twill come to my Father anon. 'Tis now a common used Proverb.

  

  John Aubrey
  • Great
  • Father
  • Son

• In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

  

  Tacitus
  • Men
  • Power
  • Bad

• I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.

  

  Franjo Tudjman
  • Up

• Imagine if every species named itself after its greatest flaw. We could name our species arrogance.

  

  John Scalzi