Scott Westerfeld Quotes
Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.
Scott Westerfeld
Quotes to Explore
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
Kara Walker
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
Hannah Gadsby
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
Irvine Welsh
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I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
Ogden Nash
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When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.
Carl Honore
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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
Hannah Arendt
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I consider myself a little weak.
Lamar Odom
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People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.
Ian K. Smith
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And that’s why we support societies that empower women - because no country will reach its potential unless it draws on the talents of our wives and our mothers, and our sisters and our daughters.
Barack Obama
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When you hear a story, do you believe only the nice parts? Truth isn’t like a baked fish, where you can eat the flesh and leave the bones and skin. You have to eat it all.
Kage Baker
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The bird stabs the worm, the big cat breaks the bird’s neck, the man casts his spear into the heart of the cat. That is how the world is. Even the man had better look behind him; the wolf may be near, or another man, or fate, the hungriest hunter of them all.
Tanith Lee
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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
Warren Farrell
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We begin by stating that religion is unbelief. It is a concern, indeed, we must say that it is the one great concern, of godless man...
Karl Barth
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Dream within a dream, Our dream deferred. Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard?
Langston Hughes
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But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.
Hans Blix
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What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.
Andrew Tobias
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The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!
Anton Chekhov
