Cecily von Ziegesar Quotes

Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.

Cecily von Ziegesar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 27, 1970

Topics

ChildrenMeBookThoughtInternet

In New York, ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with the hustle to survive.

Joe Gebbia

New YorkSurviveHustleNewGoes

What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.

Jenna McCarthy

WomenMenTogetherDeathBackQuiet

A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.

Meriwether Lewis

MorningTimeWindNightColdWolf

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

Michael Azerrad

WorkMusicTimePeopleMusicians

There is so much to sailing a ship. There's about a thousand different lines on a brig ship, and knowing what each one of those does, it takes a long time, and that's why you have these cabin boys that start on the ship, and they learn throughout the years, and that's why it takes so long to captain one.

Tom Holland

TimeStartShipLearnLongYou

I always try to see it in positive way, like, you know what, the people that are expecting so much about of me know I can do it and believe in me. So I just kind of think about it like that. And it makes me feel a little better.

Chloe Kim

PositivePeopleMeBelieveBetter

I've tweeted incessantly about Nintendo and my love for Nintendo for a long time.

Chrissy Teigen

LoveTimeLongLong TimeNintendo

The people who actually do things always suffer the slings and arrows of those who don't.

Craig Bruce

PeopleAlwaysSufferThingsArrows

The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects.

Clive Thompson

LightFireThinkingBecomeReason

When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.

Atom Egoyan

ExpectationsYouAudienceWhereFilm

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

Pierre Trudeau

BusinessNationStateBedrooms

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

Philip Roth

LifeTimeShortYouAliveJust

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