Ellen Kushner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
-
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
-
When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
-
Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
-
I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
-
Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
-
Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
-
It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
-
Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
-
I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
-
If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
-
Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
-
A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
-
I am always embarrassed and a little awkward about receiving this sort of attention.
-
No, but Liza took went and took away from me, possibly my livelihood.
-
When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk.
-
It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!
-
I've long thought that Marco Rubio would make a strong G.O.P. candidate for president. While he was brought into office by surfing on the Tea Party wave, he has proven himself not to be wedded to the frequent lunacy of those folks.
-
Making sure women get equal pay for equal work remains one of my top priorities.
-
Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.
-
I figured out how to put basically the functionality of an M.R.I. machine - a multimillion-dollar M.R.I. machine - into a wearable in the form of a ski hat.
-
I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.
-
I just want the fans of the book to be happy. I don't necessarily care about anyone else.
-
Richard knew he was fighting for his life, and he was terribly happy.
