Karen Traviss Quotes
Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
Karen Traviss
Quotes to Explore
Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.
Tea Leoni
We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback
I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.
Iggy Azalea
Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
Walter Kirn
Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
Ian Mckellen
I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
O. R. Melling
If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
Wayne Dyer
I worked in Licorice Pizza when John Lennon was killed. I had the day off, but I came in anyway because people needed a place to mourn.
Gary Calamar
I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
Daniel Berrigan
Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
Patrice O'Neal
I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
Harold E. Varmus
Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.
Hafez
Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.
Jose Mujica
It isn't unusual to see children climb into a car every morning to be ferried to the front door of a school that's just a few blocks away.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
The devices that our kids use are shipped from the factory with every possible audio, visual or vibration alert switched on. Each new app, website, tweet and message adds another layer of intrusion - each intrusion is cynically designed to get a response, and each response creates an appetite for another intrusion.
Beeban Kidron
You need a lot of comfort and nothing to be on your weight to play as you wish.
Neymar
Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
Karen Traviss