Rick Yancey Quotes
'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it mean to be human? What remains after everything we trust, everything we believe in and rely upon, has been stripped away?Rick Yancey
Quotes to Explore
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
Rachel Kushner -
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary -
I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.
Ian Schrager -
We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
We got ourselves into a position to win the game and we let ourselves down again. It's not good enough.
Eddie Charles Jones -
I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.
Jack Kirby
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The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?
Len Wein -
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle -
I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.
Paul Auster -
Everything changes and nothing remains still.
Plato -
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
John Locke Nazareth
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
Plotinus -
But let us remember that we are dealing with infinities and indivisibles both of which transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness.
Galileo Galilei -
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Fashion changes, Style remains.
Coco Chanel -
The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
Paul Krugman
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When loving Him becomes obligation, one of the many things we have to do, we end up focusing even more on ourselves.
Francis Chan -
I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
Bear Grylls -
I'm an internet junkie. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? I also have a thing for making lists. Oh man, nothing beats turning to a fresh, clean page in a notebook, taking out a nice pen, and starting a list. There's so much potential there. So much to do, so little time! So hey, why not spend some of that time making a list.
Adam Christopher -
The reports that Media Matters have done about sexism in our society and really the mainstream media called Hillary Clinton "castrating," they called her the B word, they called her all kinds of horrible things. And I think in a sense that it raised the awareness in our country, so that we can have a national discussion about it.
Carolyn Maloney -
'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it mean to be human? What remains after everything we trust, everything we believe in and rely upon, has been stripped away?
Rick Yancey