Elizabeth Bear Quotes

She was alive. She was alive, and she had found her power — or it had found her. Tomorrow’s problems she’d take care of tomorrow.

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• I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • Nice

• As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Remember
  • Always
  • Loved

• As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Men
  • Real
  • Hope

• I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Done
  • Best

• Everything that I design I would wear myself.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Design
  • Everything

• One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Great
  • Women
  • Comedy

• Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • People
  • Live
  • Soul

• A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.

  

  Zendaya
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Day

• I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Work
  • Money
  • Kids

• I'm no different than any other human being. I play music for a living, and we're very blessed.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Different
  • Blessed

• My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• The true dualism I take to be the contrast between two wills, one of which is felt as vital impulse (élan vital) and the other as vital control (frein vital).

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • True
  • Control

• One of my core principles is that I will never engage in a politics in which I'm trying to divide people or make them less than me because they look different or have a different religion. That's a core principle, that's not something I would violate.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Different
  • Trying

• No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don’t amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that’s how you get even with these boys.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • World
  • Revenge

• 'You know Adam?' Teddy asked him.'Do I know who?''Adam. In the Bible.'Nicholson smiled. 'Not personally,' he said dryly.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Bible

• He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Done

• I got to get your presence Let's make it known I think you're just so pleasant I would like you for my own

  

  Zooey Deschanel

• If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

  

  Yann Martel
  • Believe

• USA Today doesn't like my 'tone,' humor, sarcasm, etc. etc., which raises the intriguing question of why they hired me to write for them in the first place. Perhaps they thought they were getting Catherine Coulter.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Why
  • Today
  • Question

• The only team that could have competed with us was the Cubans. It's too bad they're boycotting. The teams we're playing just can't compete with our power.

  

  Mark McGwire
  • Power
  • Bad
  • Team

• I had a great season and truly enjoyed competing around the world - from Monaco, where I managed to establish a world record, to Beijing, where I finally captured my first world outdoor title.

  

  Genzebe Dibaba
  • World
  • Great
  • Outdoor

• The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Wish
  • Principles
  • Fundamentals

• She was alive. She was alive, and she had found her power — or it had found her. Tomorrow’s problems she’d take care of tomorrow.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Power
  • Problems
  • Alive