Scott Westerfeld Quotes

Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love.

Scott Westerfeld

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• Distance
• Emotion
• Hatred
• Intense
• Obsession

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• Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • God
  • Clothes
  • Thank God

• We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Be Happy

• When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Good
  • Been
  • Ourselves

• Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Children
  • Community
  • Health

• Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • School
  • Couple
  • Hurt

• The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Passion
  • First
  • Unity

• But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Play
  • Impossible
  • September

• You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
  • Light
  • Brain

• I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Balance

• I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • American
  • Age

• In baseball, you pack your uniform in the clubhouse after a ball game, and you see it hanging up in your locker when you get to your next city.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Up
  • Game
  • City

• If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • House
  • Go
  • Out

• I come from a background where money has never been an issue.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Money
  • Never
  • Where

• 'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Parents
  • Fear
  • Road

• I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Style
  • Pushing
  • Original

• As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Grow

• The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • You
  • Will
  • Tell

• I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

  

  Laura Ziskin
  • Cancer
  • Breast Cancer

• I'll never admit that I'm an actor, because the next horrible follow-up question is always, "Oh, what have I seen you in?"

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Actors
  • Next
  • Horrible

• I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Traditions
  • Pretentious
  • Curmudgeonly

• People tell me to smile, I tell them the lack of emotion on my face doesn't mean I'm unhappy.

  

  Jaden Smith
  • People
  • Smile
  • Emotion

• When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • Movies
  • First
  • Hollywood

• Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Kind
  • Distance
  • Emotion