Emshwiller And Emshwiller Quotes & Sayings

I always had plenty of ideas. I didn't exactly have them. They grew - little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in. — Carol Emshwiller

It's American to be from somewhere else, and it's American to go from East to West. It's American to seek your fortune someplace other than where you are, or to be escaping something ... — Carol Emshwiller

May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are. — Carol Emshwiller

He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I'll practice the new me in front of guests. I kind of like some of them, the guests. One has a soft, soft voice but I'm afraid he, too, may be practicing his new personality on me and that maybe he has trained himself with electric shock to his balls or some other place just as tender and soft, so that we are both living a lie. — Carol Emshwiller

Keep on. The work of the world is always done by creatures too tired to do it. — Carol Emshwiller

Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because she's your mom and you have to listen to her. It was really comfortable having my mom there, but it's also really relieving and comfortable to have someone that knows the course off their hat, really. — Lydia Ko

The world looks so beautiful! She wonders how one can not do for it anything that needs to be done, or at least all one can do. — Carol Emshwiller

Memories are worse than bullets. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I'm sorry. I am just your typical suburban mom that watches Sons of Anarchy, and I think I am all bad ass. I will shut up. — S.E. Leonard

Today was so pointless that when I tried to write about it a moment ago, my pen ran out because it couldn't take the boredom. — Tim Collins

Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell. — Euripides

He said, 'I like to see some spirit in my women. I like spunk and the fire in the eye. A woman like that is worth having,' but that was before I kicked him in the groin. — Carol Emshwiller

She makes a silent vow to be a vegetarian from now on even if she has to starve to do it. Better that than even the remote possibility of eating one's friends and fellow sufferers. — Carol Emshwiller

Maybe it's animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting. At any rate, how nice to be well dressed and among friends and in a state where poems pop out by themselves. — Carol Emshwiller

I can honestly say in my entire career, I've never gone around a golf course and not mis-hit a shot, but today I never missed a shot. I hit every driver perfect, every iron perfect. I'm in awe of myself. — Greg Norman

I made a resolution in 2010 to stop drinking Diet Coke, and I haven't had Diet Coke since then. I think it was the best life change I've ever made, because I drank quite a lot of it. — Nick Jonas

Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit! — Carol Emshwiller

No, I do not like music. (But what she really was trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.) — Jonathan Safran Foer

I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs ... well, so be it. — Carol Emshwiller

Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way ... I mean it's not the world I want to change. — Carol Emshwiller

Whatever life brings, we'll share," she says, and "I can do no more than the best I can. — Carol Emshwiller

It has been a profitable three days. In the time to knit a fairly long scarf, I have learned about the universe. — Carol Emshwiller