Jo Walton Quotes

Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.

If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.

Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation.

The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

I live by the motto of "chase your dream, make your dream your job, make your job your life."

You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before him.

Why is Scottie Pippen taking a charge? Taking a charge is for people with no game!

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice

I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood.

Our point, however, is not to worship the Bible; we worship the God of the Bible.

Since all people are in the image of God, all deserve to be treated with the dignity the image affords.

Fear Teaches Us A Lot About Ourselves.

If you are a middle manager avid to begin a quality initiative in a company ruled by an executive from the old school, look elsewhere for a job.

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.

I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.

The guy who kills 38 people is not the guy you'd want to have over at Thanksgiving.

If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.

But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

That's what I like about acting. You don't know where you'll be in year.

The first movie that made me cry was Dead Poets Society. That one gets me. O Captain! My Captain! That moment kills me.

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.

'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.

Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.

Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.

If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.

My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.

I'm a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.

What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.

If you're living for today, if you're only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn't work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you're on your way.

In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.

I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.

Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?

My relationship, my friendships with Grateful Dead, has shaped me. Our house is a shrine to all our musical heroes.

I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.

I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.

Music is my life. It's inseparable from anything else that I do.

I'm a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.