Scott Westerfeld Quotes

What about a hoverboard?" "It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things?

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• My daughter is my passion and my life.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Daughter

• Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Always
  • Going

• First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Training

• I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Great
  • Feel
  • Perfume

• I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Think
  • Game
  • Tennis

• Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Small
  • Woman
  • Village

• It is better to live rich than to die rich.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Live
  • Die
  • Better

• When you look at Yahoo Answers, there can be a lot of garbage. But if you're careful about the rules and supporting good contributions, over time you can get better and better, like Wikipedia.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Good
  • Rules

• 'Any road', said Carlyle, 'even this road to Entepfuhl, will take you to the end of the world'. But the Entepfuhl road, if taken in its entirety, and to the end, goes back to Entepfuhl; so Entepfuhl, where we already were, is that very end of the world we were seeking.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Taken
  • Road

• As you talk, so is your heart.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Heart

• If that was on my road the council would be like 'Get that down, its a deathtrap!'

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Road

• Learning an imposed method seemed not in my nature

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Nature
  • Learning

• There's a place for him, but he's the final determinant as to whether he achieves that or not. He needs to capture the imagination of a universe hungry for decent thought and passion. All he has to do is be truthful and have a vision for what to do and stop playing a goddamn game of politics. If he does that, he'll get everything he needs.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Game
  • Stop
  • Passion

• A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Present

• Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Work

• I know it's cheesy, but if you listen to the universe, it gives you pointers. I strongly believe if you keep your ears open and eyes open, your path will become clear. You just have to make sure you don't ignore it.

  

  Matthew James Thomas
  • Believe
  • Eyes
  • Universe

• I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.

  

  James Gleick
  • Time
  • Value

• I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Option

• It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Sweat
  • Bleed

• When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Single
  • Amazing

• Writing 'Deadpool' can be a lot of fun. When I first started working with the character, I wasn't sure I'd like him. I quickly realized, though, that a writer can do pretty much anything with him - comedic stories, serious stories, completely nonsensical stories.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Fun

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• When things are going good they just keep going good.

  

  Fuzzy Zoeller
  • Good

• What about a hoverboard?" "It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things?

  

  Scott Westerfeld
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