Scott Westerfeld Quotes
Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.
Scott Westerfeld
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
Olivia Colman
Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
P. J. O'Rourke
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
Hamdi Ulukaya
The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
Bayard Taylor
Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'
Gary Allan
I'm a real optimist.
Barbara Sukowa
I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
Samantha Shannon
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy
I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
Aaliyah
When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
Walter Mosley
Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.
Viggo Mortensen
A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
Adam Lambert
I think it's a completely good thing to want to do business, to want to make money and be a success in the marketplace, to get the attention of customers. I'm not in the business of pointing fingers or blaming companies, but there is a limit to everything.
Margrethe Vestager
I think, going forward, we need to be much more modest on expectations with regard to China growth: That's just being realistic.
Frans van Houten
So I say to those people. And God knows we have some All-Ireland champions here in Castlebar. I don't mean Castlebar Mitchels, I mean the whingers that I hear every week.
Enda Kenny
As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.
Alan Cranston
Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.
Scott Westerfeld
