Scott Westerfeld Quotes

There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.

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• Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Market
  • Well
  • Manager

• Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Space
  • Ideas
  • Own

• Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • America
  • Confusion
  • Only

• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Personal

• But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Country
  • Help
  • Community

• His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

  

  Mae West
  • Mother
  • Should
  • Him

• I am the face and ambassador of sambo. The organization I'm working is trying really hard to make sambo a sport on the Olympian level.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Organization
  • Ambassador
  • Olympian

• Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Dream
  • You
  • Face

• 'Love has a language that transcends all languages, all barriers and all distance.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Distance

• Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Up
  • Giving

• 'For a long time I used to think that anal sex was how lawyers were conceived.'

  

  Lawyer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Sex

• The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Proverbs

• Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.

  

  Ann Landers

• I've always been a big Cate Blanchett fan. Such a wonderful role model, the way she carries herself through her profession. She has so much grace to her, and so much intelligence. I've also always been a big Katharine Hepburn fan.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • She
  • Model

• Why would you want to dictate somebody else's taste or happiness? Music is supposed to be joyful and move people, and however that gets accomplished for different people, it's all good.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

  

  Paul Theroux

• After 'Big Daddy,' it was really slow. We weren't booking a lot, and we did a little bit here and there, but, you know, we basically went back to school, did what normal kids do.

  

  Dylan Sprouse
  • School
  • Kids

• Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • People
  • Power
  • Church

• When 'Destroyer' was first released, we got a strong backlash from our hardcore fans. After six months, the album was dead in the water. The critics didn't think much of it, either.

  

  George Peter John Criscuola Kiss
  • Strong
  • Water

• If James Franco's wearing a costume, and I'm wearing a motion capture suit, we don't act any differently with each other because of what we're wearing. We're embodying our roles.

  

  Andy Serkis

• Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Service
  • Public
  • Times

• When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Dying

• Ours is the most precarious work, as you are in one place today, and tomorrow you are in another.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Work
  • Today

• There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Happy
  • Trouble
  • Middle