Naomi Novik Quotes

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

Naomi Novik

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• Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Technology

• I am an Indian to the core.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Core
  • Indian

• I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Intellectual
  • Intense
  • Cricketer

• Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Reason
  • Like
  • Tough

• The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Crazy

• I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Life
  • God
  • Beautiful

• I know just one thing is those guys, KG and everyone, they're hungry. They want it bad. Sam's the only one that's had that, has the ring. Other than him, everybody else over there, we want it bad.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Know

• Fascism denies that numbers, as such, can direct human society. It denies that numbers can govern by means of periodical consultations: It asserts the unavoidable fruitful and beneficent inequality of men who cannot be leveled by any such mechanical and extrinsic device as universal suffrage.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Men
  • Society

• O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Light
  • Drama
  • Summer

• I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter But my will gets weak And my thoughts seem to scatter But I think it's about forgiveness Forgiveness Even if, even if you don't love me anymore.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Heart
  • Thoughts
  • Forgiveness

• Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Failure

• Based on my experience and record, I'm the best person to take Jeff Sessions' place.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Experience

• My father was one of the first six guys ashore on Iwo Jima. He's 86 years old now, and every single night of his life, he has nightmares, and he wakes yelling.

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Life
  • Father
  • Night

• I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.

  

  Egon Schiele
  • Father

• I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

  

  Martha McSally
  • God
  • Relationship

• I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what's working and what's not.

  

  Adam Wingard
  • Important

• The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quality - was invented, or so it is said, in 1982 by David McClintick, who wrote 'Indecent Exposure,' a rollicking good read about a Hollywood scandal and the ultimate boardroom power struggle at Columbia Pictures.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Good
  • Business
  • Power

• I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.

  

  Adam Rapp
  • Time

• The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • War
  • Gold
  • Soldiers

• Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Light
  • Sleep
  • Thoughts

• For me, a line has to sing before it does anything else. The great thrill is when a sentence that starts out being completely plain suddenly begins to sing, rising far above itself and above any expectation I might have had for it. That's what keeps me going on those dark December days when I think about how I could be living instead of writing.

  

  John Banville
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Dark

• The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.

  

  Warren Adler
  • Writing
  • Scary
  • Firsts

• I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

  

  Naomi Novik
  • Sleep
  • Should
  • Gold