Scott Westerfeld Quotes

With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.

Scott Westerfeld

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• I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Life
  • Book
  • Culture

• Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Trust
  • Just

• I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Life
  • Business
  • Leadership

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Life
  • Know
  • Ocean

• Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Music
  • Fashion

• May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • May
  • Perfect

• Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Life
  • You
  • Percent

• Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Career
  • Play

• I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Professionalism

• Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to stick together and see there's more to life than pleasing men. It's important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Life
  • Women
  • Sex

• I built my entire life on the idea of independence.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Life
  • Idea
  • Independence

• When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Live

• I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Life
  • Change
  • Conversation

• Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Ideas

• Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Love
  • Experience

• Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Universe

• For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Nice
  • Something
  • Event

• When I'm 70 or 80, I'm still going to be doing good climbs. It's going to be fun to the bitter end.

  

  Alex Lowe
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Bitter

• I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Perfect