Sarah Zettel Quotes

I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.

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• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Life
  • Important
  • Sports

• Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Important
  • Education
  • Sports

• The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Long
  • Knowledge
  • Search

• I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Power
  • Think
  • Globalization

• I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Want
  • Shoes
  • Champagne

• What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • World
  • Way
  • Find

• I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Words

• The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.

  

  Urjit Patel
  • Policy
  • Source
  • Consistent

• But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Think
  • Black
  • Quarterback

• Science is about unravelling nature.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Nature
  • Science
  • About

• I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Name
  • Fake

• My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Man
  • Rest
  • Name

• I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Feet

• The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • May
  • Experience
  • Problems

• As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Important
  • Find
  • Differences

• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Stories

• I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Career
  • Respect

• The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

  

  Frank Murphy
  • Free

• I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Women
  • Movies
  • Intelligent

• I know. In fact, I am never wrong.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Know
  • Wrong
  • Fact

• When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Sex

• I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.

  

  Sarah Zettel
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Wanted