Susan J. Fowler (Susan Joy Fowler) Quotes

I was speaking the truth in a system that doesn’t value the truth, but as soon as you go out of it, then speaking the truth actually has an impact. It turns out a lot of people care… not everybody is interested in ignoring bad behaviour. I learned I had to go outside the system.

Susan J. Fowler

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• System
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• Behaviour

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• Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • Success
  • Ideas
  • Green

• What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Should
  • Matter
  • Say

• You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Long
  • High
  • Age

• There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Hurt

• If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • American
  • Success

• The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Thinking
  • English
  • Language

• Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Give
  • Birth
  • Shalt

• Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

  

  Ice T
  • Country
  • Los Angeles
  • United

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Game
  • Finding
  • Literary

• A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Life
  • Women

• Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Famous
  • Friendship

• The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Air

• Es más fácil levantar la caída que no dejarla caer. Déjala caer y la levantarás.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• To the extent residency preferences prevent families and senior citizens from purchasing homes because of race, ethnicity or color, the preferences violate federal law and cannot be tolerated.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Law
  • Color
  • Senior

• White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.

  

  James A. Forbes
  • Faith

• I'm very optimistic. I'm happy-go-lucky, I guess. I try to be.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Happy
  • Optimistic

• Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

  

  Dizzy Dean
  • World

• And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick, & in a word, much like air in all respects, but far more subtile. 2. I suppose this aether pervades all gross bodies, but yet so as to stand rarer in their pores then in free spaces, & so much ye rarer as their pores are less ... 3. I suppose ye rarer aether within bodies & ye denser without them, not to be terminated in a mathematical superficies, but to grow gradually into one another.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Capable
  • Substance
  • Contraction

• What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • Criticism
  • Modern

• I've always been a fan of the VMAs, and I've always worked hard just to get a ticket to go to the VMAs.

  

  DJ Khaled

• I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Age
  • Think
  • Desire

• I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Think
  • Parent
  • I Think

• I was speaking the truth in a system that doesn’t value the truth, but as soon as you go out of it, then speaking the truth actually has an impact. It turns out a lot of people care… not everybody is interested in ignoring bad behaviour. I learned I had to go outside the system.

  

  Susan J. Fowler
  • Truth
  • System
  • Impact