Elizabeth Bear Quotes

He made a noise she recognized, one that meant he was organizing whatever multidimensional information lattices inhabited his mental space into linear strings amenable to transmission through that inadequate medium, language.

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• Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Day

• When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Impossible
  • Task

• Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nature
  • Future
  • Fate

• I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

  

  Taylor Cole
  • World
  • Good
  • Travel

• The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Woman

• Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Feeling
  • Simple
  • Destiny

• Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Great
  • God

• That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Why
  • Artist

• A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Me

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Washington
  • Outside

• Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • English
  • Baseball
  • Italian

• I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Together
  • Road

• When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Child
  • Identity
  • Name

• The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • First
  • Pink
  • Jacket

• Wearable technology is not just for consumers. It creates a tremendous opportunity for businesses, too.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Something
  • My Own
  • Anxious

• I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Work
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Love
  • American

• What's success all about? What's philanthropy all about? Let's think of our legacy, following in the footsteps of some great Americans like the Carnegies and the Mellons who used their wealth for quality purposes.

  

  Norman Braman
  • Success
  • Legacy
  • Philanthropy

• He made a noise she recognized, one that meant he was organizing whatever multidimensional information lattices inhabited his mental space into linear strings amenable to transmission through that inadequate medium, language.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Language
  • Information
  • Recognized