Marie Brennan Quotes

Given what I do to my characters, I'm not sure I'd want to meet any of them.

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• I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Hate
  • Doing
  • Just

• I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Small
  • Very
  • Feet

• I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Good
  • Think
  • Just Because

• George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Long
  • Idea
  • Israel

• While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Book

• Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Single
  • Ideas
  • Facts

• Being able to go into Wimbledon and be part of an amazing atmosphere is special.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Amazing
  • Being
  • Special

• The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Work
  • Long

• As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Citizens
  • Paid
  • Puerto Rico

• The only thing that can ever make a Louisiana boy feel better is Popeye's.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Boy
  • Feel
  • Better

• Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Food

• Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Good
  • Because
  • Often

• Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Power
  • Black
  • Same

• Ever since my childhood, I had seen my father carrying so many bags- suitcases with false bottoms , leather satchels or overnight bags, even those black briefcases that gave him a false air of repectability…. And I never knew just what was in them. ( 52 )

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Father
  • Black
  • Air

• There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Desire
  • Curiosity

• A planet of playthingsWe dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceiveThe stars aren't aligned or the gods are malignedBlame is better to give than receive - Freewill (1980)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Dance

• The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • World

• I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Work
  • Important
  • Job

• I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.

  

  Frank Stella
  • Up
  • Art

• I might occasionally forget how to open a car door and have too many shower curtains, but I've got some standards.

  

  MaryJanice Davidson
  • Car
  • Door

• But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal difference between the fire which inhabits them, and that which animates us,--it must be shown, by each of us in his appointed place, not merely in the patience, but in the activity of our hope, not merely by our desire, but our labor, for the time when the dust of the generations of men shall be confirmed for foundations of the gates of the city of God.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Fire

• But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

  

  John Crowe Ransom

• What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.

  

  Euripides
  • God
  • Look
  • Foresaw

• Given what I do to my characters, I'm not sure I'd want to meet any of them.

  

  Marie Brennan