Sarah Monette Quotes
The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.Sarah Monette
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
Hannah Kent -
I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
Daniel Defoe -
You get steely nerves playing poker.
Nate Silver -
Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
Dan O'Brien
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I believe clothing tell a story.
Rachel Roy -
I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
Zig Ziglar -
Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
Oliver Sim The xx -
I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.
Ursula Burns -
Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order.
Hanna Rosin -
It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
Fay Godwin
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Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
Tammy Blanchard -
I have lots of clothes that I don't wear because I'm bad for impulse buying. They sit in my cupboard looking forlorn, but if I haven't worn something for a couple of months, I usually realise that it would be much better off in one of my friends' wardrobes.
Bat for Lashes -
I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
Odette Annable -
And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal.
Umberto Guidoni -
Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
Jackie Chan -
I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
V. S. Naipaul
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Time flows away like the water in the river.
Confucius -
Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge.
John Ruskin -
Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.
Eliphas Levi -
With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.
William Morris -
The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.
Sarah Monette