Ellen Kushner Quotes

It was not for Halliday to judge another's personal relationships: everyone in the city was strange, if you looked deeply enough.

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• I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Want
  • Night
  • Understand

• I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Clothes
  • Old
  • Lady

• What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Heart
  • Dark
  • Self

• I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

  

  T-Pain
  • Money
  • Think
  • Parents

• Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Time
  • Country
  • Young

• I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Afrikaans

• The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Business
  • Way
  • Write

• We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Any
  • Reggae
  • Websites

• Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Time
  • Church
  • Myself

• I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Choice

• I'm really, really emotional.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Emotional
  • Really

• Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed. (XIV, Translated by W. H. S. Jones. LCL 148, Pages 296-297)

  

  Hippocrates

• I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Life
  • Important

• What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence over young people than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.

  

  Joe Paterno
  • People

• It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Heart
  • Past
  • Light

• If he wasn't so vital in my younger days, I would have never kept up with baseball. At some point, your dad has to motivate you until you actually realize what you're doing.

  

  Billy Butler
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Baseball

• When you cast someone like Natalie Portman, the character can't just be the love interest.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Character

• If you watch home videos, at 4 years old, I was doing nothing but being the entertainer. Singing 'Boot Scootin' Boogie' in the living room. Then, I guess, just by the grace of God I started writing songs, and somebody happened to like them.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • God
  • Writing
  • Home

• In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Democracy
  • Orators
  • Demagogs

• Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Pain
  • Punctuation

• There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.

  

  Ally Condie
  • Life
  • World
  • Beautiful

• American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison.... Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be an unprejudiced judge. The tale seems to me one of those many books which have profited, very dubiously indeed, by having obtained, in one way of another, the repute of being indecent.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Men
  • American
  • Literature

• Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.

  

  Andrea Barrett
  • Evil
  • Dark
  • Mysterious

• It was not for Halliday to judge another's personal relationships: everyone in the city was strange, if you looked deeply enough.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Judge
  • Strange
  • Relationships