Elizabeth Bear Quotes

Butter wouldn't have melted my smile, I swear.

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• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• I've never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If you're in a situation where you're supposed to react, you need to react.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Character
  • Think
  • Yourself

• My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Father
  • California
  • Rich

• Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

  

  Saadi
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Yourself

• I don't mind playing spoiler.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Mind
  • Playing

• Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Feel Good

• I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Best
  • Struggle

• They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else drown it out at the time?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Time
  • Wonder
  • They Say

• I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Work
  • Art
  • Always

• That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Want
  • I Can

• They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• Capitalism is the only system where such men are free to function and where progress is accompanied, not by forced privations, but by a constant rise in the general level of prosperity, of consumption and of enjoyment of life.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Life
  • Men
  • Free

• I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement.

  

  Alfred Rosenberg

• I have visited (Burma) and I know that there is only one instrument of government, and that is the army...If I were Aung San Suu Kyi, I think I'd rather be behind a fence and be a symbol than after two or three years, be found impotent.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Army
  • Fence

• Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Silence
  • Ignorance

• I'd love to do something a little different than 'Ted.'

  

  Jay Harrington
  • Different

• 'Moral police' is my new word. I am very against the media doing moral policing, giving opinions on actor's lives. Media should not become moral police; they should just report.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Giving
  • Moral
  • Police

• What I really like is to be at home, working.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Home

• People think in Hollywood there's a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it's just not that way at all to me.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • People
  • Family
  • Together

• The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Success
  • Road

• Devin stood, turning toward the sound as Kunaya bolted in the other direction, her meal unfinished. He put his hand to his sword but didn’t draw it as a girl stepped out from the trees, leading a horse by the reins. She looked a little younger than him, but her bearing was confident, and she spoke with the poise of the educated upper class.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Direction
  • Confident
  • Educated

• I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Journalism

• Why in the world shouldn't they have regarded with awe and reverence that act by which the human race is perpetuated. Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • World
  • Why
  • Night

• Butter wouldn't have melted my smile, I swear.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Smile
  • Swear
  • Butter