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

• Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Business
  • Together
  • Painting

• We have a safety meeting before any event. There's also people watching at all times.

  

  Chris Smith
  • People
  • Safety
  • Times

• Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Good
  • Hunting
  • Fish

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• Change is always preceded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's tough for me.

  

  Mel Gibson
  • People
  • Pain
  • Personality

• 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