Ellen Kushner Quotes

He had nothing against debauchery in the abstract, but he was particular about the details.

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• Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Book

• There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Book
  • Know
  • Nice

• They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Better
  • Garden

• I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Think
  • Weird

• I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.

  

  Sam Walton
  • America
  • More
  • Anybody

• I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • People
  • Stage
  • Material

• Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Pizza
  • Fat
  • Mystic

• I grew up in the church.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Church
  • Grew

• I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Start
  • Industry
  • Late

• I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • First
  • Texas
  • Touring

• 'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • World
  • History
  • Air

• The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Man
  • Cost
  • Before

• Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Good
  • Want
  • Values

• Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Heart
  • Gold
  • Classroom

• The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

  

  Alain Aspect
  • World
  • Development
  • Century

• I like the feeling of being dominated

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Sexy

• It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame…

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Thoughts
  • Memory

• Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Attention
  • Details

• For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.

  

  Sergei Eisenstein
  • Painting
  • Cinema
  • Difficulty

• It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Important
  • War
  • Best

• When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Myself
  • Forever

• My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Good
  • Society
  • Vision

• He had nothing against debauchery in the abstract, but he was particular about the details.

  

  Ellen Kushner
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  • Abstract