Elizabeth Moon > Elizabeth's Quotes

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
― Oscar Levant

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.”
― Mahatma Ghandi

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.”
― Claude Monet

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Shiny, let's be bad guys!”
― Joss Whedon

“Angel: If nothing we do in this world matters, then the only thing that matters is what we do.”
― Tim Minear, Angel: After the Fall, Vol. 1

“Shepherd Book: What are we up to, sweetheart?
River: Fixing your Bible.
Book: I, um... What?
River: Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logistics - doesn't make sense.
Shepherd Book: No, no. You-you-you can't...
River: So we'll integrate non-progressional evolution theory with God's creation of Eden. Eleven inherent metaphoric parallels already there. Eleven. Important number. Prime number. One goes into the house of eleven eleven times, but always comes out one. Noah's ark is a problem.
Shepherd Book: Really?
River: We'll have to call it early quantum state phenomenon. Only way to fit 5000 species of mammal on the same boat.
Shepherd Book: River, you don't fix the Bible.
River: It's broken. It doesn't make sense.
Book: It's not about making sense. It's about believing in something, and letting that belief be real enough to change your life. It's about faith. You don't fix faith, River. It fixes you.”
― Ben Edlund

“You can't take the sky from me.”
― Joss Whedon

“I'll take crazy over stupid any day.”
― Joss Whedon

“Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.”
― Joss Whedon

“If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.”
― Joss Whedon

“I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.”
― Joss Whedon

“If you can't do something smart, do something right.”
― Joss Whedon, Serenity

“Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say.

I do. But I like to hear you say it.

Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.”
― Joss Whedon

“If the apocalypse comes...beep me!”
― Joss Whedon

“That all you got...Bub?”
― Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 2: Dangerous

“How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place?

I read his mind.

I matched his DNA.

I smelled him.

I also did that.”
― Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 1: Gifted

“Ronon Dex could drop Edward Cullen with a look.”
― Annalyse Tar

“These Are Not The Droids You Are Looking For.”
― George Lucas

“Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it.”
― George Lucas

“No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”
― George Lucas, The Star Wars Trilogy

“THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL

1. We are here to help you.
2. You will have time to get to your class before the bell rings.
3. The dress code will be enforced.
4. No smoking is allowed on school grounds.
5. Our football team will win the championship this year.
6. We expect more of you here.
7. Guidance counselors are always available to listen.
8. Your schedule was created with you in mind.
9. Your locker combination is private.
10. These will be the years you look back on fondly.

TEN MORE LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL

1. You will use algebra in your adult lives.
2. Driving to school is a privilege that can be taken away.
3. Students must stay on campus during lunch.
4. The new text books will arrive any day now.
5. Colleges care more about you than your SAT scores.
6. We are enforcing the dress code.
7. We will figure out how to turn off the heat soon.
8. Our bus drivers are highly trained professionals.
9. There is nothing wrong with summer school.
10. We want to hear what you have to say.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Stupid people are dangerous.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games