Ellen Kushner Quotes

I studied you until I knew you, or at least, the public parts of you: your learning, your passion, the way your voice slows down when you answer a question. I studied your hands, and wondered how they'd touch me; your hair, and how it would smell. I wondered about that and about the rest of you I could not see. I wanted to know you. And I wanted you to know me. I wanted you to see me.

Ellen Kushner

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• Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Choose

• I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Like
  • Never
  • River

• Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Business
  • Appreciate
  • Your

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Strong
  • Acting
  • Weak

• I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Fighting

• Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • Good
  • Growing
  • Me

• Pain is never permanent.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Pain
  • Never
  • Permanent

• The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Broken
  • New
  • Year

• When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'd somehow escaped something. And I was really offended, because I hadn't escaped anything.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Idea
  • Doing

• The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Faith
  • Law

• For members of the Democratic Party, and progressives all over the world, it is difficult to overstate or hyperbolize the despair and dread that has descended upon them in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • World
  • Party
  • Trump

• I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Truth

• I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • College
  • Wife
  • Decision

• I want a further step for me...that's my process of development. I don't want to cut it off. I understand where it's been cut off for other people, and I understand the whole process in that order of things, but I see no way in that isn't a trap, that will let me out again without damaging too much, you know?

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People

• Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.

  

  Apollonius of Tyana
  • Soul

• The only time it got really crazy was during 'Batman.' Anywhere I went in the world, people knew who I was. I was being offered these huge films that would have taken my career to a different level, and I decided to put on the brakes. I knew if I continued on that track, I probably wouldn't have gotten married.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hate

• I want people to perceive me as a guy who wants it. That I play the game with passion and desire. That I'm athletic, that I'm fast, and I'm relentless.

  

  Jon Beason
  • People
  • Guy
  • Game

• Acting very quickly became a dream of mine, but the acting game privileges youth. It takes a while to build credits and, because of that, it's not the kind of career you can jump into in your 40s or 50s. The ship sets sail by then.

  

  Pete Ploszek
  • Game
  • Career
  • Dream

• Too much emotion is like none at all.

  

  Du Mu
  • Emotion

• I studied you until I knew you, or at least, the public parts of you: your learning, your passion, the way your voice slows down when you answer a question. I studied your hands, and wondered how they'd touch me; your hair, and how it would smell. I wondered about that and about the rest of you I could not see. I wanted to know you. And I wanted you to know me. I wanted you to see me.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Learning
  • Passion
  • Hands