Carrie Vaughn Quotes

The underworld, the old world, is the womb that gave birth to humanity. The journey from under the earth is the journey from ignorance to wisdom.

Carrie Vaughn

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• I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • History
  • Accidents

• The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Good
  • May
  • Knowledge

• I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Reading

• Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Time
  • God
  • Business

• Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Say
  • Will
  • Elves

• I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Change

• Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn't ideological; it's good law enforcement.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Good
  • Law
  • Law Enforcement

• Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Time
  • Music
  • Art

• I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Kind

• Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • Up

• If you ask me who the members of the Rolling Stones or Led Zep or the Clash were, I'd be able to tell you every member. But I couldn't name a single member of Arctic Monkeys.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Single

• Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

  

  Charles Eames
  • World

• I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.

  

  James Caan
  • Dad
  • Son

• I like the feeling of making things. It's very very rewarding. And filmmaking is that type of experience, where you're forced to collaborate with so many people. You're involved in the beginning to end, you're involved with so many elements, and when it's done, you're like, 'I made this movie.'

  

  Chris Evans
  • People
  • Done
  • Experience

• Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.

  

  Loni Love
  • Women
  • Black

• The serenity prayer, 'God grant me the strength to accept...' That's a prayer that's actually in my car. I say it every day.

  

  Lauren London
  • God
  • Car
  • Prayer

• Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

  

  Bob Cousy
  • Family

• Normally, I'm the one fawning over the man, but in 'Call The Midwife,' I'm the experienced woman.

  

  Jessica Raine

• Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.

  

  Martin Rees
  • History
  • Science
  • Sad

• Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

  

  William James
  • Opportunity
  • Emotional
  • Habit

• Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • War
  • Humanity

• The underworld, the old world, is the womb that gave birth to humanity. The journey from under the earth is the journey from ignorance to wisdom.

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Humanity
  • Journey
  • Birth