C.j. Cherryh Quotes: top 42 famous quotes about C.j. Cherryh

C.j. Cherryh Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational C.j. Cherryh quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

I would suggest that you remember she is old because some of her enemies are dead. — C.J. Cherryh

It is perfectly okay to write garbage
as long as you edit brilliantly. — C.J. Cherryh

Trust was a word you couldn't translate. But the atevi had fourteen words for betrayal. — C.J. Cherryh

There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance. — C.J. Cherryh

If I can make you angry ... I have passed your guard again. I have given you something to think about besides the Game — C.J. Cherryh

He had no wish to be killed by a bogle in which he resolutely did not believe. — C.J. Cherryh

Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers. — C.J. Cherryh

Writing day and night for months ... that's hard. — C.J. Cherryh

Trouble didn't just come in threes: it gathered passengers as it went, and crashed nastily into bystanders. — C.J. Cherryh

Gods and Thunders! — C.J. Cherryh

Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat. — C.J. Cherryh

Not advisable is spread thickly over this entire situation. — C.J. Cherryh

Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet. — C.J. Cherryh

Baji-naji, nand' paidhi. Fortune has a human face and bastard Chance whores drunken down your streets. — C.J. Cherryh

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction. — C.J. Cherryh

Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them. — C.J. Cherryh

Oh, man,' Azdra'ik said. 'This is what our eldest saw. This is what our legends say. Who could know, but us? — C.J. Cherryh

I do not think any SFWA communication should come anywhere NEAR the internet. — C.J. Cherryh

Never start a war with something you can't talk to. — C.J. Cherryh

What we individually deserve isn't as much as what we collectively merit. — C.J. Cherryh

Their minds were geared to the old problems and to their own problems and their own politics. — C.J. Cherryh

Intimidation needs response, bait needs biting. If you do neither, the attacker has nothing to build on. — C.J. Cherryh

Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed! — C.J. Cherryh

I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do. — C.J. Cherryh

A fine lady she weren't, oh, but a damn fine woman and a brave one ... — C.J. Cherryh

A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it. — C.J. Cherryh

I couldn't yet see the limits of my life, but he could see the limits of his. His life was thin, and he had a hunger for recognition. — C.J. Cherryh

If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death. — C.J. Cherryh

I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh. — Ann Leckie

Belief ... was its own magic-so long as it was carefully placed, often examined, like a bridge kept in careful repair. — C.J. Cherryh

Clark. Superman. She loved two men. It was extraordinary how alike and how different they were.-Lois Lane — C.J. Cherryh

Were the seeds of next things always there, in the circle of the year, and was that how the world worked its miracles? — C.J. Cherryh

Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing. — C.J. Cherryh

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better. — C.J. Cherryh

When it is necessary to survive, then one cannot be brave anymore. — C.J. Cherryh

Nothing's hopeless except never trying. — C.J. Cherryh

A bizarre hysteria, perhaps, that point which many reached here, when anger was all that mattered. It led to self-destruction. — C.J. Cherryh

You know its shape, since you have it. Give it up, and be paid. Or don't - and be paid, hani, be paid then too. — C.J. Cherryh

Before is the only time you own, the only before you can trust is now, and you don't even know how long before is. — C.J. Cherryh

Brains and sex fight each other to control your life, and thank God brains get a head start before sex comes along. — C.J. Cherryh

Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality. — C.J. Cherryh

Also, a foreign accent if at least intelligible can sound quite sexy. — C.J. Cherryh