Scott Westerfeld Quotes

You can't blame a match for a house made of straw, Alek.

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• People take things so seriously.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • People
  • Things
  • Seriously

• A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Heart
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Important
  • Career
  • Interesting

• Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Political
  • Voice

• That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Great
  • Comedy

• Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Country
  • Done
  • America

• My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • Stuck
  • Rut

• Just as the web democratized publishing and development, Bitcoin can democratize building new financial services. Contracts can be entered into, verified, and enforced completely electronically, using any third-party that you care to trust, or by the code itself.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Party
  • Trust
  • Financial

• A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Good
  • Man

• I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Think
  • Me
  • Like

• I feel like I'm one of the more creative artists in the game. I think I'm going to be here for a while.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Game
  • Creative

• We want people to have the right to express their concerns and frustration and protest in a peaceful manner.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Want
  • Frustration

• I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • Success
  • Faith

• Nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Life
  • Political
  • Planning

• How much longer are we English to assist foreign nations in misunderstand us, by holding up that ridiculous lay-figure of our race known by the style and title of John Bull?

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Up
  • Style
  • English

• We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Free
  • Bird

• Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.

  

  Jenny McCarthy
  • Children
  • Experience
  • Nature

• You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Trying
  • Beautiful
  • Process

• My daughter, who is 7 years old - I have no idea where she learned this - she made a video where she's beat-boxing. We have no idea where the beat-boxing came from, but all of a sudden, there it was. Now we're launched into lyric sheets for every single song that is current. They're all over our house.

  

  Al Madrigal
  • She
  • House
  • Song

• I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day....

  

  Robert Frost
  • House
  • Fly
  • Bird

• And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

  

  Plato
  • Use
  • Blame
  • Philosophers

• You can't blame a match for a house made of straw, Alek.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • House
  • Blame
  • Straw