Ellen Kushner Quotes

Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.

Ellen Kushner

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• Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Men
  • Magic
  • Blood

• I always love listening to Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my favorite albums.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Listening
  • Blood

• Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Snow
  • Forest
  • Tourism

• The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Yourself
  • Snow
  • Be Yourself

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • True
  • Religion

• Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

  

  Sallust
  • Ambition
  • Blood
  • Gratitude

• Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • True
  • Man
  • Amazing

• I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • Power
  • Blood
  • Cost

• So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Fire
  • Snow
  • Ending

• My mother and my sister are big Jon Snow fans.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Mother
  • Sister
  • Snow

• Reticulocytes are terminally differentiating red blood cells that do not contain lysosome. Therefore, it was postulated that the degradation of hemoglobin in these cells is mediated by a non-lysosomal machinery.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Red
  • Blood
  • Cells

• I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Mad
  • Blood
  • Athlete

• I don't rate Heat fans like I rate Knicks fans. We are true basketball fans. No matter what - rain, sleet or snow, or even if we don't make it to the playoffs for 10 years - the Garden stands are still full.

  

  Fat Joe
  • True
  • Basketball
  • Garden

• I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Think
  • Powerful
  • Snow

• Like a lot of people, I love a bit of blood and gore.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • People
  • Like
  • Blood

• Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of otherness. Red is the colour of blood and danger.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Hair
  • Red
  • Blood

• With Pakistan being in my blood, I would certainly look at opportunities to travel there.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Travel
  • Blood
  • Opportunities

• And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• Since Switzerland has nothing else to identify it…and since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Remember
  • Snow
  • Chocolate

• Book collecting is a largely solitary, mostly male, and completely absorbing activity.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • Book

• All economic activity is by definition 'high risk.' And defending yesterday-that is, not innovating-is far more risky than making tomorrow.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • High
  • Risk

• People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.

  

  Bruce Hornsby Bruce Hornsby & The Range
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift store, white socks, and my t-shirt and my very beat-up Helmut Lang blazer. I'm in the exact same outfit every day.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Day
  • Same

• Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Blood
  • Snow
  • Fairytale