Naomi Novik Quotes

I ended up rooming in a dorm that was basically a solid wall of female scientists. And every Wednesday, we would all watch "Star Trek: Next Generation."

Naomi Novik

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• The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Lost
  • Value
  • Chance

• I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Time
  • Think
  • Civil Rights

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Lost

• Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Survival

• I often don't read reviews.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Read
  • Often
  • Reviews

• You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Up
  • America
  • War

• I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • You
  • Will
  • Little

• Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Passion

• When you're on Earth, if you go to the top of a mountain, the stars look much brighter than they do at sea level. And because the space shuttle is above Earth's atmosphere, it's like being on a very, very high mountain. So they look brighter, but not bigger.

  

  Sally Ride
  • High
  • Earth
  • Space

• Well, we knocked the bastard off!

  

  Edmund Hillary

• Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Music
  • Dream

• I live by the 80-20 rule: 80 percent of the time, you eat really healthy, and 20 percent, you treat yourself.

  

  Kris Jenner
  • Time
  • Live

• I wished I could go back to Atletico; I'm not going to lie.

  

  Diego Costa

• I don't pay attention to negative stuff.

  

  Jodie Sweetin
  • Attention

• The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

  

  Albrecht Durer
  • God
  • Opinion

• I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

  

  Martin Parr

• My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

  

  Donny Osmond
  • Father
  • Challenge
  • Attitude

• If the world is a game whose rules are written by the God, and sorcerers are those who cheat and cheat, then who has written the rules of sorcery?

  

  Richard Scott Bakker
  • World
  • God
  • Game

• I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Feel
  • I Want
  • Self-knowledge

• One went on and on, never dreaming of the sudden dreadful day when the coverings were going to be dropped and one would see it was death after all, that it had been death all the time, death pretending, death waiting.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Death
  • Dreaming
  • Covering

• More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them

  

  J. Harold Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Wisdom

• I ended up rooming in a dorm that was basically a solid wall of female scientists. And every Wednesday, we would all watch "Star Trek: Next Generation."

  

  Naomi Novik