Ellen Kushner Quotes

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

Ellen Kushner

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• 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

• 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

• I think the important part is picking clothes that are flattering to your figure, and obviously I want a big say in what I was going to wear, 'cause it's still me that's out there.

  

  Danielle Panabaker
  • Important

• He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

  

  Charles Peguy
  • Truth

• I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.

  

  Kitty Kelley
  • Society

• An ambuscade, if discovered and promptly surrounded, will return the intended mischief with interest.

  

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

• Very intense first summer out, to be 18 years old and never having gone on a date, never having smoked a cigarette, never had a drink, even a sip of beer, never kissed a girl, all of those things. It made for a fairly intense first year out.

  

  Peter Jurasik
  • Girl
  • Summer
  • Beer

• Over the next 40 years, he rose to lead that department. Pop was the tall, strong, silent type, quiet and dignified, and passionate about the rule of law. Back during Prohibition, he heard that bootleggers were running beer through fire hoses between Yonkers and the Bronx.

  

  James Comey
  • Strong
  • Law
  • Running

• I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.

  

  Debby Boone
  • Dad
  • Fact
  • Rock And Roll

• Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Life
  • Death
  • Struggle

• Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Dog

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

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Beer
  • Troubled
  • Maelstrom