Ellen Kushner Quotes

Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.

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• I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Power
  • Found
  • Delhi

• That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Happy
  • Feel
  • Guilty

• If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.

  

  Dan Malloy
  • People
  • Different
  • Party

• The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Life
  • World
  • Desire

• My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Parents

• What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • Solitude
  • Destroy

• This theatre is your theatre. You are responsible for its creation and its progress.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Progress
  • Theatre

• Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.

  

  Emma Alice Margaret Asquith
  • Brain

• May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is - and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Life
  • May
  • Age

• 'It’s a wonder to me,' said Adams sourly, 'that you don’t simply melt down in the white heat of your brilliance.'

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Wonder

• I signed up with Kundalini yoga teacher training, which has been shifting me in some really beautiful ways.

  

  Angela Lindvall
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Training

• The thing is this: I've got an amazing career in England that couldn't possibly get much better. I do the best theater around, I work at the National Theater, the Old Vic - which I'm sure you've heard of because it's the one Kevin Spacey runs - and I play the most amazing roles and work with the most amazing directors.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Work
  • Career
  • Amazing

• You don't want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else's words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you're writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.

  

  Gayle Lynds
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Words

• I don't think I've ever seen him in a movie theater! I've only seen him on TV. Wow, that's so silly of me! We only saw one of his films together, it was with a group of people, and when he kissed Deborah Kerr, I jumped off the couch and I ran up and I slapped the screen. I was so upset that my father was kissing this woman I didn't even know!

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

  

  James Jeans
  • Space

• Arizonans want us to come together, put aside politics, and solve problems. You want us to do our jobs in way that reflects the best of our state. You want us to stop and listen - something that doesn't always come naturally to people in politics.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • People
  • Together
  • Stop

• When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.

  

  Lindsay Lohan
  • Singing
  • Dance

• The Jewish culture has a wonderful thing about education. It has a great thing about family; it has a great thing about unity, hard work, dedication. I would like to say the African-American community should emulate that.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Work
  • Great
  • Family

• "Then idiots talk," said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, "of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Energy
  • Dictionary
  • Idiots

• “One of the wonderful things about beer is that a little bit, sipped at the proper speed, can give one the courage to do and say things one would ordinarily not have the courage to even dream of doing and saying.”

  

  Charles Beaumont
  • Courage
  • Doing
  • Say

• If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Believe
  • Wonderful
  • Resist

• Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while you are doing it and the easiest when it is done.

  

  Bhai Sahib Singh
  • Surrender
  • Difficult Things

• We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Kind
  • Hair
  • Pink

• Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Beer
  • Troubled
  • Maelstrom