Lisa Tuttle Quotes

I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be an explorer or a spy,' and it all came from books.

Lisa Tuttle

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• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Going
  • Big
  • Most

• Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Friends
  • Father

• I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Work
  • Great
  • Mother

• I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Different
  • Me
  • Influence

• People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • Money
  • Business

• An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Practice
  • More
  • Preaching

• I think long-term, Bitcoin is a currency of the Internet. So, even if humans don't use it, routers will use it. Web browsers will use it. Web servers will use it.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Long
  • Think
  • Internet

• I'm just not very funny.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Funny
  • Just
  • Very

• Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Goal
  • End
  • Math

• Remember the diner in 'Happy Days?' I do want to do a show like that. But an updated version.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Want

• Looking back at my career, I wish I knew then what I know now... that gender bias is built into the system, and it's unconscious in many ways. I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more. I was always trying to be a 'good girl' and play by the rules.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Career

• My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Death

• I just wanna be a good artist.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Good
  • Artist
  • Just

• I have always taken care of my body; I'm not a drinker, I've never smoked. And I've always exercised. That's all you have to do.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Taken
  • Never
  • Care

• Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • World
  • Peace
  • Calm

• There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Long
  • Reason
  • Problems

• As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Words
  • Prince
  • Hamlet

• Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go.

  

  Heber J. Grant
  • Individual
  • Capacity

• Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Sound

• Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Music
  • Australian
  • Kylie Minogue

• Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.

  

  Bion of Borysthenes
  • Progress
  • Enemy
  • Self-conceit

• I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be an explorer or a spy,' and it all came from books.

  

  Lisa Tuttle