Elizabeth Bear Quotes

Impatience and cutting corners: it’s the primate way. It got us down out of the trees and up to the top of the evolutionary heap as a species, which is a lot more like a slippery, mud-slick game of King of the Hill with stabbing encouraged than any kind of tidy Victorian great chain of being or ladder of creation.

Elizabeth Bear

• Creation
• Impatience
• Primate
• Game Of Kings

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• I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • You
  • Know
  • Deserve

• The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Crime
  • Eternal

• I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Research
  • Scene
  • Through

• The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• Insults are the business of the court.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Business
  • Court
  • Insults

• I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Idea
  • Write

• Pilates is great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Pilates

• Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • People
  • Up
  • Nature

• We gave the world dab fever!

  

  Quavo Migos
  • World
  • Gave
  • Fever

• Honestly, I don't buy papers or the weeklies. I think when something messy does happen, you just need your closest friends and family all around you, and it's nothing to do with anyone else.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Think

• I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • May
  • Night
  • Food

• Christ means Krishna, love of Godhead, Who has His face annointed with tilak.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Mean
  • Faces
  • God Love

• Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Language
  • Weird
  • Belief

• If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • Presidents
  • Governors
  • Senators

• Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Bad
  • Progress
  • Communication

• If you come to a fight thinking it will be a fair one, you didn't come prepared.

  

  F. Paul Wilson
  • Thinking

• Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

  

  Susanna Moore
  • Yourself
  • Write
  • Begin

• Clear declaration of truth makes a difference in people's lives. That is what changes hearts. That is what the Holy Ghost can confirm in the hearts of God's children.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • People
  • God
  • Children

• Unless proven with enough evidence, the MILF should be given the benefit of the doubt to promote a good atmosphere for the peace talks.

  

  Eduardo Ermita
  • Doubt
  • Evidence
  • Atmosphere

• Impatience and cutting corners: it’s the primate way. It got us down out of the trees and up to the top of the evolutionary heap as a species, which is a lot more like a slippery, mud-slick game of King of the Hill with stabbing encouraged than any kind of tidy Victorian great chain of being or ladder of creation.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Creation
  • Impatience
  • Primate