Lois McMaster Quotes

One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.

Lois McMaster

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• Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • You
  • Anger
  • Guilt

• All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Acting
  • Role
  • Performances

• In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.

  

  Parker Young
  • Years
  • Thousand
  • Vegetables

• People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • People
  • Go
  • Extraordinary

• The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Political
  • Religious
  • See

• Trends don't interest me.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Me
  • Interest
  • Trends

• We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.

  

  Young Thug
  • Money
  • Power
  • Game

• I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Think
  • Thought
  • Resolution

• Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Mind
  • Hope

• I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Work
  • Find
  • Hiding

• It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Absurd
  • Charming

• Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Character
  • Political

• I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Trying
  • Family

• I hope everyone goes through life seeking knowledge.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Knowledge

• I realized that for this moment, nothing in the past mattered. Nothing terrible in the future mattered. What mattered was her skin against me, her hand holding me, the perfume of her hair and skin and the warmth of her breath against my chest. This was satori. This was truth.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Truth
  • Future
  • Past

• И если умирает человек,с ним умирает первый его снег,и первый поцелуй, и первый бой...

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

• Tarzan was an interested spectator. His desire to kill burned fiercely in his wild breast, but his desire to learn was even greater. He would follow this savage creature for a while and know from whence he came. He could kill him at his leisure later, when the bow and deadly arrows were laid aside.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Desire
  • Savage

• They have made a grave mistake choosing that woman.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Mistake

• I've got the best lead man, I really love my lead man.

  

  Anna Friel
  • Men

• He who does not move with the times is a dead man...

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Man
  • Dead
  • Times

• No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Marriage
  • Forgiveness
  • Survive

• I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you sit down at the keys long enough, sooner or later something will come out.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Enough

• I think life is cotton candy on a rainy day. For those who grew up with cotton candy the old-fashioned way, it is very delicate. Pre-made cotton candy that has preservatives is not nearly as good or true. True cotton candy is sugar, color, and air and it melts very quickly. That was the metaphor - it can't be preserved, it can't be put aside, it can't be banked. It has to be experienced, like life.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Metaphor
  • Delicate

• One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Wine
  • Lips
  • Delicate