Lois McMaster Quotes

Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.

Lois McMaster

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• I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Black

• Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Fight

• Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • Children
  • Education

• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Matter

• I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Think
  • Hate

• Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Quality

• Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Important
  • Funny

• There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Men
  • Why
  • Bad

• I just followed my parents' example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found it. They were professional do-gooders, ministers of the church, social workers, teachers, and missionaries, that sort of thing.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Parents
  • Church

• Fashion for a long time was very elitist and difficult to get access to. The access I can now provide to my readers live from fashion shows with my iPhone was never, ever possible before.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.

  

  B. F. Skinner

• The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Silence

• When I hear the word Culture I take out my checkbook

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Culture

• Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Earth
  • Cool

• I've been really tryin, babyTryin to hold back these feelings for so longAnd if you feel, like I feel babyCome on, oh come on,Let's get it on.

  

  Marvin Gaye

• Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God. When you are in doubt as to which you should serve, forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle, for this is everything.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • God
  • Doubt
  • King

• One thing that really drew me to him the first time I saw him play was his leadership ability within the team.

  

  John McCormack
  • Time
  • Leadership
  • Ability

• There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • Life
  • Philosophy
  • Analysis

• It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Habit
  • Conversation
  • Rule

• Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Habit
  • Officers
  • Plus