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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• Ivory

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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'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • True
  • Mother
  • Future

• 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
  • Athlete
  • Blood

• 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

• 'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is Red,' or even 'The Museum of Innocence,' because the secular leaders didn't want this bourgeois Orhan trying to understand these head-scarf girls.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Red

• 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

• When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

  

  Donald Miller
  • God
  • Book
  • Opinions

• We could not ‘break’ nature if we spent a million years trying. This planet is a speck, and we are specks on a speck. But our little habitat is fragile, and we cannot live without it.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Nature
  • Break
  • Planet

• 'Dad's Army' show was a military thing but also very funny, so it's kind of the two things that I experienced by being a soldier, and I found it very humorous then and there, because of the juxtapositions and me and my emotional state.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Kind
  • Military
  • Emotional

• I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written

  

  Judy Collins
  • May
  • Song
  • Written

• 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