Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian culture, one must first defend the State. This is because what preserves the race relies upon intelligence, which is in turn nurtured by Confucian education.
Zhang Zhidong -
Iran is the latest expression of a deep, ancient, powerful culture that's different than ours. And we don't know how it's going to play itself out.
Barack Obama -
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
Epictetus -
Now Livie's gone west, out of the dust, on her way to California, where the wind takes a rest sometimes. And I'm wondering what kind of friend I am, wanting my feet on that road to another place,instead of Livie's.
Karen Hesse -
When we first recorded Fake Plastic Trees it was terrible! It sounded like Guns 'n' Roses. It was awful! It was like loud guitars... you could envisage one of these dreadful hilltop, Grand Canyon-esque videos. It was long hair flowing.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
Sam Kean -
I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
Nancy Gibbs -
You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.
Larry Merchant
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I don't want to treat my little girl like she's made out of glass or wrap her in bubble wrap or anything! And I also don't want to be constantly correcting her or warning her. Or my least favorite, reprimanding her.
Constance Marie -
Okay, there's this thing you can do, a thing you can do like no other person on this planet. That makes you special, but being special ready doesn't mean anything. You still have to get dressed in the morning. Your shoelaces still break. Your lover will still leave you if you don't treat her right.
Andrew Kaufman -
If you label me, you negate me?
Wayne Campbell -
You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
Nawal El Saadawi -
I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.
Vince Gilligan -
I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.
Scott Westerfeld