Scott Westerfeld Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
-
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
-
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
-
The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
-
Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
-
Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
-
Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
-
I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
-
You can't tag me as a regional actress.
-
Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
-
And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
-
Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'
-
When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
-
So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
-
I got lost but look what I found.
-
I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
-
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
-
I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
-
Now, 'the fiscal cliff' is a name that the media came up with, but some of us have been saying for years, 'You have got to stop the out of control federal spending, or you will end up at this point.' We're there.
-
When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
-
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
-
Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
-
Don't fret, boy. I'm not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no matter where they're from, have been trying to understand this world of ours.
-
Barking hard work, being a boy.
