Charlie Jane Anders Quotes

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• To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Business
  • Better

• I'm still learning my craft.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Learning
  • Still
  • Craft

• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Life
  • Change
  • Blind

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
  • Family
  • School
  • Remember

• In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Thought

• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Ideas
  • Air
  • Breathing

• Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Never
  • New

• Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • System
  • Accept
  • Peaceful

• I was raised on NBC television.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Television
  • I Was Raised

• I was going to college to be a doctor.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • College
  • Going
  • Doctor

• Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Heart
  • May
  • House

• I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Best
  • Person
  • See

• From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Bad
  • Fall
  • Observation

• Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It’s just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we’re left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• A woman can only become a man’s friend in three stages: first, she’s an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress, and only after that a friend.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • She
  • Friend

• If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

  

  Jeanette Winterson

• When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Together
  • High
  • Age

• Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

  

  Pete Waterman
  • Mind
  • Age

• I use all kinds of resources for researching my novels. I'm not shy about calling up experts and asking questions, or emailing, or buying textbooks and references. The Internet is always a brilliant way to find instant facts, but it's not a great way to really understand your subjects in depth without a lot of work.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Art
  • Words
  • Joy

• Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Me
  • Kid
  • Singer

• My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Business
  • Father
  • Man

• Color returned to the world, cone time replaced rod time.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Time
  • Color
  • Rod