Steven Brust (Steven Karl Zoltán Brust) Quotes

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

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• I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Best
  • Feel
  • Doing

• I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Me
  • Painting

• HB2 discriminates against fellow citizens because of who they are. This law directly challenges the legitimacy of the identity of transgender persons and then compels them to deny it every time they use a public restroom.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Time
  • Law
  • Identity

• I don't really like pants, man. I like tights. I'm not really a pants person. I choose not to wear pants.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Man
  • Like
  • Choose

• Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Laughter

• Heathcliff. The "hero" of Wuthering Heights. Although no one knows why. He's mean, moody, and possibly a bit on the pongy side. Cathy loves him, though. She shows this by viciously rejecting him and marrying someone else for a laugh. Still, that is true love on the moors for you.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Why
  • She
  • True

• The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.

  

  Gary Player
  • Player
  • Lesson
  • Expects

• Nobody told me how to sing, so I just thought I'd try and sing like Howlin' Wolf. It was like a bark; there was melody to it - but I would go off a bit and I wouldn't stick AutoTune on it or anything to make it in key. Even now, I couldn't tell you about harmonies. I couldn't tell about what notes I'm singing because nobody taught me to sing.

  

  Rory Charles Graham
  • Melody
  • Harmonies
  • Notes

• Pro wrestling has always been my passion. I always wanted to be a pro wrestler.

  

  Alberto Del Rio
  • Passion
  • Wanted
  • Wrestler

• Pre-season was very challenging with the African Championships on my continent. Unfortunately, I failed to qualify for the Games there. It was an emotional moment for me due to the context, but I quickly accepted the result as evidence of what my preparation has been the past 3 years.

  

  Benjamin Boukpeti
  • Games
  • Evidence
  • Challenging

• It's no treat being in bed with me.

  

  Howard Stern
  • Bed
  • Treats

• In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Honesty
  • Middle
  • Antiquity

• French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Happy
  • Complaining

• It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Help

• I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Interesting
  • Like
  • Creative

• In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Teenager
  • Ways
  • Normal

• Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Business
  • Man
  • Small

• True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

  

  Steven Brust
  • Planned
  • Avoided
  • Heroics