Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.

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• This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Fear
  • Space
  • Hurt

• For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Nice
  • Boring
  • Too

• I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Long
  • Why

• In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Shopping
  • Taxes

• If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

  

  La Monte Young
  • Heaven
  • Communication
  • Away

• Politics is not an exact science.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Exact

• I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Think
  • Hope
  • Passion

• I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Attention
  • Crazy

• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Reality
  • Small
  • Reality TV

• You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • You
  • Attitude

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • God
  • Done
  • Me

• I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Time
  • Book
  • Fun

• While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • American
  • Rise
  • Stagnant

• I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
  • Want
  • Play

• I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

  

  Daniel Inouye
  • Hope
  • Question
  • Suffering

• Whatever we may think or affect to think of the present age, we cannot get out of it; we must suffer with its sufferings, and enjoy with its enjoyments; we must share in its lot, and, to be either useful or at ease, we must even partake its character.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • May
  • Character
  • Age

• Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Success
  • Quality

• Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Together
  • Black

• You are not ashamed of our luuurve, are you, Jas?' 'Look, shut up, people might hear.' 'What do you mean, the people who live in the telephone?

  

  Louise Rennison
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• 'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Black
  • Crazy
  • Horse