Scott Westerfeld Quotes
Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.
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.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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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.
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We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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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.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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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.
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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.
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My goal in boxing is to be the best.
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I consider myself a little weak.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Some chick came up to me and said something, so I kicked her in the box and shoved her.
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I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery, and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot.
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Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist (our friends being friends only in the light of an agreeable folly which travels with us through life and to which we readily accommodate ourselves, but which at the bottom of our hearts we know to be no more reasonable than the delusion of the man who talks to the furniture because he believes that it is alive.).
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Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.
