Aliette de Bodard Quotes

Nothing, until the ground comes up to meet you, and you land in a jumble of pain and shattered bones; and the scream you didn’t think you had in you scrapes your throat raw as you let it out—like the first, shocked breath of a baby newly born into a universe of suffering.

Aliette de Bodard

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• I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Want
  • Know
  • See

• Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Energy
  • Loss

• People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Story
  • Cinderella

• I don't want to be a Major League coach.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Want
  • Coach
  • Major

• The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Freedom
  • Progress
  • Diversity

• He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Same

• Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knowledge
  • Predict
  • Those

• I'm not a negative person.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Person
  • Negative

• I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Home
  • Funny
  • Wife

• My hair had been dyed blonde for 'Dredd.' After 'Dredd,' I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that's how it was during 'Being Flynn.'

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Hair
  • Being
  • Blonde

• The Green Hornet was a human superhero. And he didn't wear a clown costume. And he was a criminal - in the eyes of the law - and in the eyes of the criminal world.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • World
  • Law
  • Eyes

• I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!

  

  Caity Lotz
  • House
  • Hate
  • Imagination

• I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Song
  • Mood
  • Writer

• I think it's one of those funny things - sometimes you're not really friends with somebody until you've gotten into a good fight, and I think that's the situation with Superman and Batman.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Funny

• When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Words
  • Wall

• When you get older, your skin tone changes; your hair probably changes colour, whether you dye it or not, and you just can't wear the colours you used to like anymore.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Hair

• Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.

  

  Astro Teller
  • World

• I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Live
  • Day
  • Green

• Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Think
  • Guy
  • Match

• What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

  

  David Ogilvy

• I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Best
  • Played

• I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Pain

• Nothing, until the ground comes up to meet you, and you land in a jumble of pain and shattered bones; and the scream you didn’t think you had in you scrapes your throat raw as you let it out—like the first, shocked breath of a baby newly born into a universe of suffering.

  

  Aliette de Bodard
  • Pain
  • Meet
  • Ground