Hurley Quotes & Sayings

Nyx had killed a lot of people. She'd let even more die through neglect. Rhys was just one more. I'm the same person, aren't I? she thought. She had burned herself up, only to come out the other side exactly the same.

Taite's signal would get out, Nyx knew. It would be soon enough to save *her*.

But it would not be soon enough for Rhys.

Nyx hardened her jaw. Her hands and feet were still tied. They'd stripped her of her most obvious weapons. She could just wait this out.

She saw Rhys register that. But there was no shock. Just resignation. He knew her for what she was.

Butcher. Monster.

The same old monster. — Kameron Hurley

The world could burn around her, the cities turn to dust, the cries of a hundred thousand fill the air, and she would get up after the fire died and walk barefoot and burned over the charred soil in search of clean water, a weapon, a purpose. She would rebuild. — Kameron Hurley

When we were too frightened to save our own people, we murdered others. — Kameron Hurley

We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So must the desire to revere and envy others we imagine to be better, more accepted, and more popular than we are. The only problem is that the most necessary qualities required to be a celebrity
self-absorption, egomania, shamelessness
are the least attractive in a friend. — Tonya Hurley

Good luck to you," he said, and she remembered how he had looked at her as she pinned Yah Tayyib, as if she was some kind of monster.

Maybe she was. — Kameron Hurley

Language is a powerful thing, and it changes the way we view ourselves, and other people, in delightful and horrifying ways. Anyone with any knowledge of the military, or who pays attention to how the media talks about war, has likely caught on to this.
We don't kill "people." We kill "targets." (Or japs or gooks or ragheads). We don't kill "fifteen year old boys" but "enemy combatants" (yes, every boy 15 and over killed in drone strikes now is automatically listed as an enemy combatant. Not a boy. Not a child.). — Kameron Hurley

He recited, "My mother was a bird of fire. She bore me swaddled over the ruined cities of my sisters. We rained a sea of flame upon our brother, and brought them aloft again. Transformed. Our mothers burned the cities. We keep the ruins. — Kameron Hurley

The "conference room" is actually the library since it's the only space other than the morgue fridge big enough to hold this many people, and Hurley and I already have dibs on that other room. As we enter the library, a cacophony of noise greets us. Everyone is talking to everyone else and most of the voices are a mere gnat's ass away from shouting. Hurley's little pup tent is safe, assuming it's still up, because our entry into the room goes unnoticed by everyone other than Izzy. — Annelise Ryan

Light doesn't always keep the dark things away, Nyx said. — Kameron Hurley

What if they'd brought some weapon with them, or are launching an assault on the Mokshi right now? How can you or her trust people who are no better than bandits?" I gaze at the human skin stretched over the table. Zan follows my look and quiets. "We are all villains here," I say. — Kameron Hurley

During production, I didn't ever have one minute off to go file my nails, or do anything which girls quite like to do some of the time. I couldn't do anything. I turned into a zombie. — Elizabeth Hurley

They'd pay attention to me less. They'd judge me by gender, by looks, by weight before anything else. I automatically started every interaction at a disadvantage. — Kameron Hurley

Power is nothing without discipline. Power without discipline is short lived. — Kameron Hurley

Being fucked up is fine so long as you compensate for it. — Kameron Hurley

And next thing you know, six of my best apprentices get purged for minor paperwork discrepancies and perhaps an unreported cock or two. — Kameron Hurley

The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV? — Chad Hurley

Nick? Nick Hurley?" I asked, laughing.
He took back his hat. "You'll be sorry to hear I don't make gross faces as much as I used to. Now I'd rather smile at girls."
"I noticed"
He waved his hat around as if he was trying to dry it, his green eyes sparkling at me, as full of fun and trouble as when he was in elementary school. I realxed. — Elizabeth Chandler

'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV. — Alan Carr

It's all about portion control. Grilled fish, a small amount of wild rice and vegetables is a good meal. — Elizabeth Hurley

Worry may not change the outcome, but it definately affects the outlook. — Tonya Hurley

Asking men to cut away their "feminine" traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to suppress their "masculine" traits asks them to deny their full autonomy.
What makes us human is not one or the other - the fist or the open palm - it's our ability to embrace both, and choose the appropriate action for the situation we're in. Because to deny one half - to burn down the world or refuse to defend the world from those who would burn it - is to deny our humanity and become something less than human. — Kameron Hurley

We kill a few people to stop a lot of people dying," Nyx said. "Wars kill a lot of people to keep a few people rich. — Kameron Hurley

We all fight monsters, she knew. There was no shame in losing. — Kameron Hurley

I thought you loved all this excitement,' Nyx said.
'I love orange-flavored popsicles. Fried maggots on toast. Sunset in Ashura. This? This, I merely tolerate. — Kameron Hurley

What I really, really want to do is pre-packaged meals. Fabulous versions that are delicious, healthy, not too expensive and very low in fat. So, that's my big dream, because there's a massive hole in the market for that. — Elizabeth Hurley

When you have a model that's worked very well, it's very hard to change. — Chad Hurley

You know, I've virtually never been chatted up in my life, it's true. — Elizabeth Hurley

You need to change the whole system to be free, not just improve your part in it. — Kameron Hurley

Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and lead to unforeseen pitfalls down the road. Noam Wasserman uses vivid anecdotes and deep research to expertly outline the key early choices that define a startup, making The Founder's Dilemmas an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error. — Chad Hurley

( ... ) then went into his room in the middle of the night after a long, heavy day of footwork and drinking; a coward's fight. She'd trussed him up and cut off his cock. She considered the act her formal resignation. — Kameron Hurley

Secrets can kill the innocent and enchant the guilty. — Alexis Hurley

When you understand what the world is, you have two choices: Become a part of that world and perpetuate that system forever and ever, unto the next generation. Or fight it, and break it, and build something new. The former is safer, and easier. The latter is scarier, because who is to say what you build will be any better? — Kameron Hurley

Your voice is powerful. Your voice has meaning. If it didn't, people wouldn't work so hard to silence you.
Remember that. — Kameron Hurley

But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we - Of many far wiser than we - And neither the angels in Heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee. — Tonya Hurley

What were all of them, really, but bits of something else? Bits of stars? — Kameron Hurley

Aliens bled red, just like everybody else. — Kameron Hurley

It took me six years to be comfortable modeling a swimsuit. — Elizabeth Hurley

Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business. — Chad Hurley

I've bled and fucked and died for this country, Nyx said. — Kameron Hurley

Hugh Grant and I both laugh and cringe at the same things, worship the same books, eat the same food, hate central heating and sleep with the window open. I thought these things were vital, but being two peas in a pod ended up not being enough. — Elizabeth Hurley

The truth is, those people we feel drawn to most might not be intended as love interests, but rather as life-changing, life-altering presences that come into our lives for reasons we can't yet understand. — Tonya Hurley

From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard. — Chad Hurley

It's appalling that there should be hunger anywhere, but particularly in a country like America, where there is also such great wealth. — Elizabeth Hurley

The war had remade her. Reshaped her purpose. Why couldn't she unmake it again? — Kameron Hurley

I'm not trying to be mean,' Casamir says.
'Intent doesn't always matter. — Kameron Hurley

Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a lot of friends who did. — Elizabeth Hurley

Breaking free, or not, is usually determined by whether you want to get somewhere slowly or nowhere fast. — Tonya Hurley

If something excites you, go for it. — Chad Hurley

I love pilates and yoga but don't do them regularly. — Elizabeth Hurley

I do like my life very much, yes. — Elizabeth Hurley

I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts. — Elizabeth Hurley

Nyx had to admit she had a soft spot for plain folks. There was something to be said for finding beauty in the rough. — Kameron Hurley

So what the hell's wrong with me?" Nyx eased off the marble slab.
"Besides your deviant moral flexibility and severe phobia of emotional commitment?" Yahfia asked.
"I consider those virtues," Nyx said. — Kameron Hurley

There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes. — Kameron Hurley

But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908. — Jeff Bezos

I love my baseball, and I love my Phillies. — Chad Hurley

Advertisers now have a highly targeted opportunity for aligning their brands alongside the entertainment experience people are enjoying on YouTube. — Chad Hurley

We started YouTube to democratize video distribution. Now, we are democratizing video creation, — Chad Hurley

The secret to leadership is not to be a particularly intelligent person. It is to surround oneself with those far smarter than oneself. And try not to kill them. — Kameron Hurley

Nyx rubbed the ointment onto her new, darker skin. She was nearly as dark as Suha now. She supposed it would protect her from more cancers, but it was funny-looking. At least her face was the same. At least her face didn't look Chenjan.
I'm never going to get laid again, Nyx thought. — Kameron Hurley

Regret; The saddest word in the English language. — Tonya Hurley

There was a fine line between madness and intelligence. — Kameron Hurley

You never think it will happen to you. You think about what it would be like. You go through it over and over in your mind, changing the scenario slightly each time, but deep down, you don't really believe it would ever happen, because it's something that happens to someone else, not to you. — Tonya Hurley

Systems of racism and sexism and oppression are not systems we choose, but they are ones we inherit and are responsible for perpetuating, or not. When I hear so-and-so was "a product of his/her time" as an excuse for bigoted behavior, I remind folks that there have always been people in every time who did not agree with the bigoted systems they were born into and who actively fought them. The question is, which are we? — Kameron Hurley

Video gives people a voice. — Chad Hurley

I didn't have a cup of coffee until I was 27. — Elizabeth Hurley

All you do is learn how to fight a war," Nyx said. "Nobody ever teaches you how to stop. — Kameron Hurley

I think a platform such as YouTube has to respect local laws and customs. — Chad Hurley

I never understood why you tried so hard to fit in, when you were obviously meant to stand out. — Tonya Hurley

I've learned a lot about putting a show up in Vegas. You can't just all of a sudden put up a show here and do well. Nobody does. — John O'Hurley

To see how YouTube has become part of pop culture, it's been just amazing. — Chad Hurley

So long as the people with the power - to hire and fire you, approve or deny your loan, or write up your speeding ticket - look at you through the lens of institutionalized racism, sexism, homophobia or any other -sim they've learned form stories, videos, media and other biased individuals, a single win means nothing. We cannot effect true change alone. — Kameron Hurley

She had traded that first womb for twenty notes and a case of Ras Tiegan beer. — Kameron Hurley

I had no idea what to say to this. I had been nurtured in the U.S. school system on a steady diet of the Great Men theory of history. History was full of Great Men. I had to take separate Women's History courses just to learn about what women were doing while all the men were killing each other. It turned out many of them were governing countries and figuring out rather effective methods of birth control that had sweeping ramifications on the makeup of particular states, especially Greece and Rome.
Half the world is full of women, but it's rare to hear a narrative that doesn't speak of women as the people who have things done to them instead of the people who do things. More often, women are talked about as a man's daughter. A man's wife. — Kameron Hurley

We can pretend all we like that women are equal, ut as long as men and women are continually encouraged to supress the broad aspects of their humanity that we decry as "feminine", we're all screwed.
Because it's those things qe celebrate as "other" that make us truly human. It's what we label "soft" or "feminune" that makes civilization possible, It's our empathy, our ability to care and nurtureand connect. It's our ability to come together. To buld. To remake. Asking men to cut away their "feminine" traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to supress ther "masculine" traits asks them to deny their full autonomy. — Kameron Hurley

Life was what you did with what was done to you. — Kameron Hurley

You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do. — Tonya Hurley

There are many ways to be haunted, not all of them supernatural. From photo album to love letters, the memory of bad choices, broken promises, lost loves, and scattered dreams can often longer far longer than the glow if satisfaction from our greatest accomplishments. Indeed, the most frightening ways to be haunted may be in the many ways we haunt ourselves. — Tonya Hurley

Friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there — Tonya Hurley

Her body sometimes amazed her. She could keep going long after she couldn't. — Kameron Hurley

Issues are like assholes, we've all got one, Pam snipped. — Tonya Hurley

The sand has rules. Fucked up rules, but rules nonetheless. — Kameron Hurley

The wonderful thing about being ignorant is that it can be resolved very easily. Foolishness cannot. — Kameron Hurley

We aren't going to win," Roh said. "No," Luna said, "but we're going to live. — Kameron Hurley

A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin. — Elizabeth Hurley

We all need to relax more, but I don't find it easy. — Elizabeth Hurley

Ras Tiegans fried everything, from grasshoppers to pickles to hunks of curried dog. — Kameron Hurley

The two favorite episodes of 'Lost' that Adam and I wrote were 'Dave,' which was where Hurley has an imaginary friend, and 'Trisha Tanaka is Dead,' where Hurley finds a van and starts it. — Edward Kitsis

How are you feeling?"
"Fit as a harem girl."
"You're as much a harem girl as I am a mullah," Suha said. — Kameron Hurley

We don't miss what we never had, but we miss terribly things we almost had. And we miss things we used to have most of all. Through we hope and pray for our relationships, our looks, and our lives to improve, having more also means having more to lose. — Tonya Hurley

I have a very keen sense of smell and always associate certain people and places with particular fragrances. For me, nothing is more likely to set a mood than certain scents. I find I vary the perfume I use depending on the climate and the time of day. However a few great perfumes seem to work for most occasions. — Elizabeth Hurley

The only reason to live is to love and the only reason to love is to live. — Tonya Hurley

What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories? ... Stories tell us who we are. What we're capable of. When we go out looking for stories we are, I think, in many ways going in search of ourselves, trying to find understanding of our lives, and the people around us. Stories, and language tell us what's important. — Kameron Hurley

If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley ... It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks. — Sadie Frost

You most likely know it as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me. — John O'Hurley

She is equal parts manic brutality and strategic fuckery. — Kameron Hurley

I'm not that careful with cars. — Elizabeth Hurley

She would never, she thought, be allowed to enjoy a moments pleasure without an eternity of pain. — Tonya Hurley

And some of us believe in freedom of the individual over the tyranny of the common good. — Kameron Hurley

Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
And if I should die before I awake,
I pray the popular attend my wake. — Tonya Hurley