Tanith Lee Quotes

She had never acquired in-between shades of character, had not had the opportunity. She had been utterly selfish, and was now selfless, because she had never become a whole person, did not like herself, or know herself. Nor had she ever gained sufficient wisdom to be properly horrified at what she meant to do. She couldn’t think that intensely.

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• For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Tax
  • Benefit

• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Eye
  • Shadow

• Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Inspiration

• We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Cancer

• Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Liberty

• Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Relationships

• At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Time
  • Art
  • Logic

• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Will
  • Anger

• You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Help
  • Guy
  • Game

• Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Death
  • Culture
  • Where

• If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Sports

• I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Craft

• Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Emotional

• My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Father
  • Like

• I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Enjoy
  • Disappointed

• Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Character

• Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• The first time I showed the tattoo, it was big news in the newspaper: 'She has a tattoo with a snake.' It's not a snake.

  

  Li Na
  • Time
  • She
  • Tattoo

• To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

  

  John Eldredge
  • Trying
  • Character

• Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

  

  John Ashcroft
  • Law

• She had never acquired in-between shades of character, had not had the opportunity. She had been utterly selfish, and was now selfless, because she had never become a whole person, did not like herself, or know herself. Nor had she ever gained sufficient wisdom to be properly horrified at what she meant to do. She couldn’t think that intensely.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • She
  • Character
  • Opportunity