Elizabeth Bear Quotes

Few are the memories which are more than a handful of dust, to be let run through the fingers.

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• There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Yourself

• We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Emotional
  • Acting
  • Inspired

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Germ

• My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Often

• I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Money
  • Fun

• It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse. And I've suspected that this optimism blinds many in Silicon Valley to the real struggles in other parts of the country. So I decided to move home to Ohio.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Men
  • Words
  • Nothing

• I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Job
  • Like
  • Feel

• 'Sight-seeing is the art of disappointment,' I quoted.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Art
  • Disappointment

• From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart
  • Different
  • History
  • Taken

• Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?

  

  Neil Marshall
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I like doing everything. That's why I came to Pixar, as opposed to Disney or any other studio - it's small. At the time I started, I was, like, the 10th person in the animation group, and we all had to do everything. That's the way I like it, keeping it fresh.

  

  Pete Docter
  • Time
  • Why
  • Small

• The Sound of Music was just such an honour to be in, because it was a movie that appeals to so many people, and they just loved it so much and they still love it to this day.

  

  Angela Cartwright
  • People
  • Music
  • Movie

• I always know I'm a country singer, and regardless of where I've fallen into different places with my music, I know that, really, I'm a country singer.

  

  Ronnie Milsap
  • Music
  • Different
  • Country

• I love what Paul Thomas Anderson did with 'The Master' with putting out those teasers made up of footage that's not in the movie.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Up
  • Movie

• Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

  

  Bernadette Devlin
  • Today
  • Struggle

• This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

  

  Jean Froissart
  • Home
  • Law

• You don't choose. I just go where the work is.

  

  Jacqueline McKenzie
  • Work

• The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Ground
  • Requires
  • Satyagraha

• They say that our sense of smell is one of the strongest triggers of memories. Of course, our sense of smell is integral to our sense of taste, so it is no surprise, then, that in a life full of moving and traveling, food has always been a source of familiar comfort for me.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Life
  • Food
  • Moving

• Some of my happiest childhood memories are going to the movies with my dad and seeing whatever was out that week. In 1977, when I was 7, it was 'Star Wars.' That was a life-changer.

  

  David Benioff
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Star

• Happiness is total and complete satisfaction with yourself

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Satisfaction

• For me, the '80s was great because you had Boy George, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Prince, and Cyndi Lauper. No one put boxes saying this is urban, this is popular, this is underground. It was just good or bad.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Good
  • Popular
  • Boxes

• Few are the memories which are more than a handful of dust, to be let run through the fingers.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Memories
  • Fingers
  • Dust