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 became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Experience
  • History
  • Student

• 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

• But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Listen
  • Would
  • Six

• When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• 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

• What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Peace
  • Enemies
  • Destruction

• If awkward has an antithesis, it is probably Barack Obama.

  

  Alexandra Petri

• A lot of coaches are very intense, which is good once you are working, but you don't want that all the time.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Time
  • Good

• You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.

  

  Craig Bruce
  • Waiting

• 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