Scott Westerfeld Quotes

I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.

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• Every dude needs a well tailored suit. I'd say well tailored suit, a leather jacket, and a pair of jeans that really fit are vital in your wardrobe.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Jeans
  • Leather
  • Dude

• I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Men
  • Why

• Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Defense
  • Million
  • Homeland

• I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • House
  • Stop

• People have been scared off Bitcoin by the fact that you needed to put your money in an unregulated overseas platform that has been cut off by banks and scrutinized by the Fed. We are looking to remove the pain points and create a way to invest that is faster and more secure.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • People
  • Money
  • Pain

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • Feel
  • Class
  • Last

• I grew up listening to a lot of different types of music, and R&B in particular was something that I loved - Aaliyah, Usher, Alicia Keys, TLC.

  

  Yuna
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money... Jennifer Lawrence... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Women
  • Money
  • She

• The bad boys get all the best lines.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Best
  • Lines

• The right reading for this is the one I'm giving.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Giving
  • Reading

• It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

  

  Eric Hobsbawm
  • American

• Everyone wants something that'll appeal to, like, 13-year-olds to 18-year-olds. Especially working in television and trying to pitch shows, they're like, 'We definitely want something that a 14-year-old will be, like, super-psyched about.' And I'm like, 'I don't know if my reality is appealing to a 14-year-old.'

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Trying
  • Reality

• Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Real

• I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

  

  Jean O'Leary
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• I haven't seen a quarterback play a perfect game yet.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Game
  • Perfect

• I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Time
  • America
  • Freedom

• I love Rihanna's style. It's a good mix of streetwear and show wear, and I love her music, too. She's an incredible singer and performer.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Good
  • Music
  • She

• I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Believe
  • Feminist
  • Contradiction

• There are also many things my wife can't stand about me, and there are certain capacities that she has that are different than mine. The trick is to find compatibilities.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Different
  • She
  • Wife

• It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Silence
  • Slavery
  • Season

• I'm signing the letter that says, let's be quiet when he gets his award and just sit there. I think it's very sad that this man is being honored and the people he destroyed are never going to have a chance to be honored.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • People
  • Chance
  • Sad

• Well, one of the things we felt was missing from the greater conversation is that transgender people have been living and working in America for years...People may think it's a "new" thing; it's not...So we wanted to show not just the political side, which is what you see with Caitlyn Jenner. And not the other side with Laverne Cox, who's great.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Missing

• I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Thinking
  • Needed
  • Holes