V. E. Schwab Quotes

I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.

V. E. Schwab

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LifeDeathWorldStartDoorsMagic

They would hear 3000 and think it was the year 3000, I was hoping it would sort of disorient them and prepare them for the strange message they were about to receive.

Joel Hodgson

ThinkYearStrangePrepareWould

Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.

John Paul DeJoria

LifeCommunicationLovedBetterYou

I don't draw on my inner life in my work.

Tom Stoppard

LifeWorkInnerInner LifeDraw

I'm not that much of a singer.

Ross Butler

SingerMuch

Growth is not an objective in itself; we should be concerned with standards of living.

Joseph Stiglitz

GrowthLivingStandardsConcerned

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

Clara Bow

LifeTrustMeNowKidThings

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

Anthony Doerr

ScienceWriteBostonGiveGlobe

Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.

Arthur Machen

GreatI AmWorldSmallEveningNews

I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are.

Wynton Marsalis

GoodMusicCultureJobReadingFeel

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.

Alfred de Vigny

HeartMatterHumanOriginalGifted

I make a big pot of pasta with vegetables, and I stretch it out for the week.

Sylvia Kristel

WeekVegetablesPastaOutBigPot

You can fix your body, your heart, your diabetes. In Korea, China, and India, there are people who do yoga. They go to the mountains and do breath-in, breath-out meditation. They can live 500 years and not get sick. Keeping their bodies for a long time is possible; even flying in the sky is possible.

Seung Sahn

LiveHeartTimeSkyMountainsSick

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