Elizabeth Wein Quotes

High time they put the RAF in kilts.

Elizabeth Wein

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• The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Fear
  • Best
  • Scary

• It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Nature
  • Small
  • Understand

• I never analyze why I was with one woman instead of another.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Why
  • Woman
  • Never

• My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Government
  • Like
  • Find

• Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

  

  Marco Tempest
  • Real
  • Art
  • Truth

• When I sold my first middle-grade novel in 2005, it wasn't that common to put an author photo on the back flap, but 24-year-old Korean-American me insisted. I wanted Asian girls to see my face. And more than that, I wanted them to see what is possible.

  

  Jenny Han
  • American
  • Author

• When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing for 10 people in a 250 people capacity venue. The promoter wanted to book me because he liked my music. I played a couple of songs that made people dance. To me, that rush has always stayed the same.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • People
  • Music
  • Book

• You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!

  

  Arthur Cohn
  • Why

• In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disposable pop stuff - there's almost an incentive to go back to making music as adventurous and groundbreaking as you can, because nobody gets a big hit anymore.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Music
  • Black

• I love the sassy skinnies; that's what I usually wear.

  

  Jenna Ushkowitz
  • Sassy

• I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Reading
  • Thoughts

• My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.

  

  Jeff Foxworthy
  • Good
  • Family
  • Kids

• And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

  

  Edward James Olmos

• Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way.

  

  Christian Borle

• Art was not a thing for my family and is still not a thing for my family. My family will not go to a museum unless I say we have to go there. That's why I really feel like it was something I was supposed to do because there was no directive that pushed me in that direction.

  

  Amy Sherald
  • Family
  • Art
  • Why

• In L.A., it's very hard to have some kind of conscience of some style out there. The weather's too hot; there's no seasons.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Style

• To play this iconic character from this historically wonderful series of books - who wouldn't take that opportunity and be happy about it? I'm happy to be Hodor forever.

  

  Kristian Nairn
  • Character
  • Happy
  • Opportunity

• I went to a very academic school, but I never really quite... I think because not that many people were particular creative or arty, I felt a little bit different.

  

  Vanessa Kirby
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Up
  • Years
  • Path

• In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life - the plants and animals that inhabit the earth - has evolved merely to regulate the chemistry of the biosphere. Humans are insignificant participants, far less important to the life cycle than termites. Even the imbalance that we have created by adding massive quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere may be brought back to acceptable levels by other organisms functioning in their capacity to correct excesses.

  

  David Easton
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Animal

• It's an exciting place to go, really. The rain, the drizzle, the cold, the depressing people, the smokes in the bath ... I don't know of anyone who has been to Blackpool and enjoyed it.

  

  Ian Hindmarsh
  • People
  • Cold
  • Rain

• It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is love.' This year, it's 'all you need is love and peace, baby.' Give peace a chance, and remember Love. The only hope for us is peace. Violence begets violence. You can have peace as soon as you like if we all pull together. You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Beautiful

• High time they put the RAF in kilts.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Kilts