Lois McMaster Quotes

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster

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• When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Bad
  • Feelings
  • Years

• When it comes to setting the market values, I let that stuff take care of itself. I know my value in this league, and I know the team appreciates me. I'm going to continue to make myself an indispensable part of this roster. When you do that, when your time comes up to get a contract, you usually get a contract extension.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Team

• I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Single
  • Heaven

• Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • World
  • Real
  • Progress

• I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Women
  • She
  • Fun

• When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Character
  • You
  • Look

• I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Think
  • You
  • Go

• Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Great
  • Kids
  • You

• Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Real
  • Internet

• I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Inspired
  • Ocean
  • Paris

• I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.

  

  Odette Annable
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Country
  • Culture

• I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Pictures

• People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • People
  • School
  • Kids

• It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Day
  • Fall

• Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

  

  Harlan Stone
  • People
  • Nature
  • Free

• To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Music
  • Children
  • Happy

• We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • You
  • Choices
  • Need

• Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • People

• In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• I used to do a Saturday drama group called Young Blood Theatre Company with school-friends in west London - nothing to do with my mum and dad. A casting director came to pick people out for a new BBC children's series called 'MI High.' She picked me, I auditioned, and I got the job.

  

  Bel Powley
  • People
  • Children
  • School

• Our children change us... whether they live or not.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Children
  • Reality
  • Change