Scott Westerfeld Quotes

Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

Scott Westerfeld

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• How lucky am I?

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Lucky
  • How
  • Am

• I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Long
  • Country
  • Love

• My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Think
  • Always
  • Punk

• In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Time
  • Back
  • Passport

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Independence

• Beaujolais is so underrated.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Underrated

• My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Father
  • Day
  • Mom

• Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Experience
  • Parents
  • Knowledge

• You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Difference
  • Knowing
  • Wit

• A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Thought
  • Patience
  • Year

• I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Know
  • Taken
  • Look

• I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Son

• Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Weird
  • Holiday
  • Friday

• How pleasant to sit on the beach,On the beach, on the sand, in the sun,With ocean galore within reach,And nothing at all to be done!.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Done
  • Sun
  • Ocean

• Many black men leave because they are financially responsible-not because they are emotionally irresponsible.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Black

• Diversifying, to me, is the product of having an idea and knowing to say, 'Let's do it.'

  

  Jimmy Iovine

• Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Patience
  • Communicate
  • Thinkers

• I know I'm strong, and that's good.

  

  Gael Monfils
  • Good
  • Strong

• I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the sea by night in a storm the sea shouting that accumulates new sins and to the ancient makes recompense. I am exiled from your world of pride polite, by pride defrauded, I am the king without crown. I am the passion without words without stones of the hearth, without weapons in the war, is my same force that make me sick.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • War
  • Pride
  • Storm

• I lead a very busy life and don't have a lot of time, so my skincare needs to be easy and portable.

  

  Erin O'Connor
  • Needs
  • Easy

• Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Trying
  • War
  • Fool