Richard Scott Bakker Quotes

He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.

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• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hair
  • Struggle
  • Constant

• I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
  • Hair
  • Gray

• I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • America
  • Future
  • Risk

• Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Always
  • Religion
  • More

• This country is pretty amazing.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Amazing

• To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

  

  Nate Silver
  • World
  • Real
  • Know

• You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • You
  • Friend
  • Gay

• I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Time
  • Want
  • Start

• If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Military
  • Cuba

• What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Mind
  • True
  • Lose

• It always struck me that Africa was, in a strange way, a futuristic place and had elements and vibes and spirits that were going to inform the future. Africa Express is an attempt to engage that power outside Africa, and for everyone to benefit from it.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Power
  • Future
  • Place

• As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Good
  • American
  • Taken

• I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Never
  • Order
  • Before

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Fear
  • Air
  • Enough

• I love Armani Face Fabric, Make Up For Ever HD, Rodial Skin Tint and Charlotte Tilbury.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • Up

• Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

  

  Alice Lowe
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Confidence

• Democrats are just as wrong to insist the law is perfect, that the law doesn't have things that need to be fixed, and to pretend that the law did wave a magic wand and make everything in the health care system fixed.

  

  Conner Eldridge
  • Law
  • Perfect
  • Health

• The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Women
  • Country
  • Girl

• Whereas women are most turned on by a man's depth of presence, men are most turned on by a woman's radiance and energy: how she moves, moans, smiles, and opens in love.

  

  David Deida
  • Men
  • Women
  • She

• He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.

  

  Richard Scott Bakker
  • Thinking
  • Soul
  • Forever