Esther M. Friesner Quotes

One blade couldn’t win a battle, but as long as it was mine, it could be used to protect me and those I loved.

Esther M. Friesner

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• But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

  

  Utada Hikaru
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  • Words
  • Relationship

• True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • True
  • Father
  • Man

• I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Time
  • Book
  • Like

• When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Woman
  • Feet
  • Maturity

• I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Way
  • Day
  • Actor

• Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Women
  • American
  • Chinese

• When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Alone

• I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Teen
  • Valley
  • Typical

• All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Time
  • Different
  • Earth

• 'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Song
  • Kiss
  • Twilight

• Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • World
  • Work
  • Love

• Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Song
  • Feeling
  • Christmas

• Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.

  

  Earl Long
  • Dollars
  • Four
  • Sarcastic

• I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Existence
  • Sorry
  • Noble

• Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Knowledge
  • Confidence
  • Motivational

• Many successful people get up before 6am in the morning. They have rituals. They exercise, stretch, organize their day, and walk through that series of rituals.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Up
  • Morning

• The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Science
  • Fear
  • Democracy

• It's all a learning process. You've got to learn from experience, the battles you go through. Some guys continue to grow. Hopefully, that's what I'll continue do.

  

  Paul Pierce
  • Guy
  • Process
  • Battle

• Even where the game is today, cats don't really focus on necessarily what it is that you're saying so when people say, "Oh, you can't rap," I play into the joke. That's why I'll challenge anybody; anybody rapping, let's go just because I know what the art form is and even when you see these battle rappers in here, they're so skillful. It's actually a skill.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • Today
  • Focus
  • Challenges

• I am looking forward to getting out of the bubble. I am glad that I'm leaving this place at a relatively young age, at 55. So I have the opportunity for a second maybe even a third act in a way that I think would be tougher if I were, you know, the age of some presidents when they left.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Age
  • Opportunity
  • Leaving

• How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!

  

  Richard Wagner
  • Christian
  • Interpret
  • Ingenious

• One blade couldn’t win a battle, but as long as it was mine, it could be used to protect me and those I loved.

  

  Esther M. Friesner
  • Battle
  • Protect
  • Blade