Ysabeau S. Wilce quotes

“People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy?”
-- Ysabeau S. Wilce

#People Quotes #Important Quotes #Asking Quotes

“After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as weird and remote from our own as Middle Earth or Narnia, yet oddly familiar.”
-- Ysabeau S. Wilce

#Past Quotes #Research Quotes #World Quotes

“Most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore.”
-- Ysabeau S. Wilce

Source : Ysabeau S. Wilce (2008). “Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog”, p.330, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

#Tired Quotes #Hungry Quotes

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

“When something important is going on, silence is a lie.”

“I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.”

“Life is more important than 'what film I do next.”

“Good isn't my thing but Sawyer's important to me. Please remember I've got my limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste is pushing me dangerously close to the edge of those limits.”

Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

“But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.”

“The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."”

Source : What to Listen for in Music (1939) ch. 2

“People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.”

“I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.”

“I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.”

Source : "Meet La Belle Anglaise" By Anna Pursglove, Evening Standard, December 15, 2000.