Naomi Novik Quotes

What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

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• The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Process
  • Adventure
  • Miracle

• I love Amy Adams. She is wonderful. Evan Rachel Wood is a blast. I am also really excited about Ari Graynor from 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' and 'American Crime.' I think it is an exciting time for young women in this industry. I am excited to make my own path.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • Women
  • Wonderful

• It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.

  

  Kate Mara
  • People
  • Love
  • Exciting

• At 23 years old, I came into politics as a dragon slayer. At 63 years old, I'm going out as a dragon.

  

  Aaron Francis Broussard
  • Years
  • Dragons
  • Going Out

• Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality.

  

  T.A. Barron
  • Great
  • Real
  • May

• It's going to be meaningful and exciting. It's going to be something different, something I've never done before.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Different
  • Done
  • Meaningful

• Did you see The Never-Ending Story? That's one kick-ass dragon. It's basically a giant puppy dragon.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Ass
  • Giants
  • Puppy

• The ones as big as sheep were easier to avoid, because you could see them coming, but when they flew in at the window and curled up under your eiderdown, and you did not find them till you went to bed, it was always a shock. The ones this size did not eat people, only lettuces, but they always scorched the sheets and pillowcases dreadfully.

  

  E. Nesbit
  • People
  • Up
  • Sheep

• For me, it's the unexpected and surprising combinations of produce that are the most exciting and lure me into the kitchen for a little bit of experimenting. Apples and sweet potatoes together? Who knew? Carrots with grapes? Okay. I may not be Julia Child, but I can do pretty well with a simple recipe and a lot of enthusiasm.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Children
  • May
  • Together

• Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Book
  • Government
  • Dragons

• Learning about acting for camera is really quite exciting to engage with and deal with.

  

  George Blagden
  • Acting
  • Exciting
  • Deals

• Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Intelligent

• The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Growth

• When I hear other artists that are new and fresh and exciting, then I get excited.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Artists
  • Exciting
  • Fresh

• I have been listening to the Stooges' self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Listening
  • Exciting
  • Albums

• You're chasing the dragon, you're chasing the high. A bird with one wing, who's still trying to fly.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Trying
  • Drug
  • Bird

• When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.

  

  Graham Coxon Blur
  • Firsts
  • Stuff
  • Exciting

• Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Happiness
  • Fight
  • Dragons

• I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • God
  • Theory
  • Great Thing

• Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Space

• When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt out. Data should be erased as soon as its main purpose is met.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Chance

• Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Control
  • Responsibility
  • Democracy

• The more I read, the more I see. Connections get made. Lights go on. God speaks. Often, when I am facing some difficult or puzzling situation, God reminds me of a Scripture passage I have read. And it makes all the difference.

  

  Ann Spangler
  • Connection
  • Difference
  • Lights

• What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

  

  Naomi Novik
  • Exciting
  • Dragons