Lois McMaster Quotes

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

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• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Single
  • Prayer

• We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Power
  • Without
  • WIld

• I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Happy
  • Better
  • Angry

• You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Actor
  • Issues

• I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Different
  • Love
  • Together

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.

  

  Babyface
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • True
  • Nice
  • Thrilled

• It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Art
  • American

• 'What?''Never mind. It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Mind
  • Waves

• Cada um tem a sua vaidade, e a vaidade de cada um é o seu esquecimento de que há outros com alma igual.

  

  Vanity

• The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border.

  

  Amos Oz

• The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans.

  

  Cheryl Mills
  • People
  • Power
  • History

• The fantasy genre is so in at the moment. Viewers want to escape from their lives and watch something that is so separate from their everyday existence. People have always wanted to escape their lives - that's why they go to movies and the theatre.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • People
  • Why
  • Theatre

• I do create songs and play the guitar. But my focus is definitely on acting. I think, if there's going to be singing involved in my career, it would probably be in musical theater.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Career
  • Focus
  • Singing

• So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.

  

  Dario Argento
  • Time
  • Long

• When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.

  

  Arthur Darvill
  • World
  • Theatre

• I find man's inhumanity to man extraordinary,,, I can't get my head around it.

  

  Joe Wright

• I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Different
  • Comedy
  • Person

• I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.

  

  Bjorn Lomborg
  • World
  • Friends

• You know some people are all about talk. I'm about results. Every victory, every conservative victory, I've had, I've had to bleed and fight to accomplish it, always adhering to our conservative principles, and refusing to take no for an answer.

  

  David Dewhurst
  • People
  • Victory

• 'The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for - for what? Someday we'll know.'

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Life
  • Dream
  • City

• There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Victory
  • Survivor
  • Massacres