Scott Westerfeld Quotes
Have a little faith in me, Volger." "I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
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My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
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The purse strings tie us to our kind.
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Let me just make this point, John...We're not campaigning anymore. The election's over.
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Poems get to the point where they are stronger than you are. They come up from some other depth and they find a place on the page. You can never find that depth again, that same kind of authority and voice. I might feel I would like to change something about them, but they’re still stronger than I am and I cannot.
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How commentators each dark passage shun,And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
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I would recommend to her and Mr. D. the simple regimen of separate rooms.
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Oh please...As a standup, I tried to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room. Not necessarily in that order.
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„…there will be no peace in the tormented world, only a programmed and systematic series of wars and calamities-until the plotters have gained their objective: an exhausted world willing to submit to a planned Marxist economy and total and meek enslavement- in the name of peace.'
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Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him.
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I don't think I've ever hosted anything in my life.
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Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.
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Book collectors are thrill-seekers. It is a vegetarian hunt to be sure, without much exertion or risk, but the endorphin rush of the chase and the adrenaline high of the capture are much the same with first editions as I imagine they must be in the pursuit of 10-point stags, largemouth bass, or 20-foot waves at Maverick's.
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I cannot but look upon the strange Instinct of this noisome and troublesome Creature a Louse, of searching out foul and nasty Clothes to harbor and breed in, as an Effect of divine Providence, design'd to deter Men and Women from Sluttishness and Sordidness.
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Personally, I think tying garbage bags around your head and hands is overkill.
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Thoughts of heaven quicken our faith. Our only sure and solid foundation is the hope of heaven. The only solution to earth's mysteries, the only righter of earth's wrongs, and the only cure for worldliness, is heaven. We need an infusion of heaven into our faith and hope that will create a homesickness for that blessed place. God's home is heaven. Eternal life and all good were born there and flourish there. All life, happiness, beauty, and glory are native to the home of God. All this belongs to and awaits the heirs of God in heaven. What a glorious inheritance!
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Have a little faith in me, Volger." "I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.
