Scott Westerfeld Quotes

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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• My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Know
  • Story
  • Fix

• Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Feel
  • Glamorous
  • Lingerie

• The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Work
  • You
  • Events

• If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

  

  Gary Player
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Heaven

• When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Up
  • You
  • Enemy

• I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Like
  • Secrets
  • Boxes

• Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Humor

• Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • You
  • Everything
  • Director

• I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Happy
  • Model
  • Right

• With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Writing
  • Want

• Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Truth
  • Become
  • Pet

• I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Up
  • School
  • Book

• A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • You
  • Circumstances
  • Merger

• Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Everyone
  • Started
  • Rumors

• Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Different
  • Long

• My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Alone
  • Struggle
  • Leaving

• 'Like I told you, I'm not a magician,' he says. 'If something isn't working, I don't try to guess.'

  

  Uri Geller

• Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd, Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free, Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Free

• What is going to happen in the course of my day that will be an improvement over lying on something very soft, underneath something very warm, wearing only underwear, doing absolutely nothing, all by myself?

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Improvement
  • Course
  • Underwear

• We want and expect to win the silver or gold. A bronze would be a step back. In fact, we think it would be a put-down if we don't win the silver or gold.

  

  Betty Okino
  • Gold
  • Expect
  • Step Back

• I love being outside with my boys, playing tag or trying to keep up with them.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Up
  • Trying

• Lycurgus the Lacedaemonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and those that were deformed more terrible. To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, 'Pray,' said Lycurgus, 'do you first set up a democracy in your own house.'

  

  Plutarch
  • Fashion
  • Democracy
  • Long Hair

• Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Giving
  • Dollars
  • Hundred