Tony Diterlizzi Quotes

We are born, we live, and we perish, perhaps to be born again in some other form ... Galaxies are but one living entity burning with the energy from all of us. Life and death are but siblings who turn the universe continually. Endlessly. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

No living thing is insignificant. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

It is because they are happier when they are together. They are safe. They are strong. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

Your mother contained a good spirit. A loving spirit. A spirit that will not cease to exist.
Eva looked at him, her brows furrowed.
Rovender placed his arm around Eva's shoulders. You see, she lives within you now, in all of the lessons that she taught you. Lessons you will never forget. Lessons you will always carry with you ... and will one day pass on. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

When you're in elementary school, you get these amazing assignments, like to come up with your own animal, come up with your own city, come up with your own planet, what do the people look like; you're very much encouraged to be as imaginative as possible. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

So is death a journey? Is it to another place?" she asked. "Is it another planet?"
"Many have wondered this very question,"replied rovender. "But there is an old Caerulan saying: When your journey reaches its destination here, may you walk on through the memories of those still with us. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

I read a lot of fantasy and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek.' I loved going to Middle Earth. 'Dungeons & Dragons' was a huge influence. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

We did not know that she had passed," Soth said. She held a palm up to the air. "Hopefully, her spirit has found serenity."
The council did the same. "Spirit find Serenity," they said in unison. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

A full stomach allows the brain to be hungry for common sense. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

Maybe answers are found not in observing but in doing. Doing the right thing -Eva Nine ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

Having a family that loves books and loves to read has always created a common ground for communication. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

My fifth grade teacher Mr. Straussberger noticed I was having trouble with some of my book reports, but he knew I loved to draw. He gave me extra credit if I did a drawing from the book that I was reading. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired my imagination, and that's what I have always aimed at doing for my readers: ignite their imaginations. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

In 2008, my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Sophia, suffered a grand mal seizure. It came from nowhere, for no apparent reason, and took hold of my little fairy-girl. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

I think I've got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

Your answers lie here, Rovender said, gesturing around the library. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

One can find happiness in a variety of places. It can be in a busy city of many, such as Solas; but it may also be alone, deep in a tranquil forest. It is not always among your kind -Rovender ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

Inkblot shadows of the canopy swayed and rolled on the forest floor in the cloudy light, almost as if the ground itself was moving. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

We have someone with us who is dying
someone whose spirit is ready to leave this world, she thought to the tree. But he wants to be with his clan. With his forest. Will you take us? ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

It reveals that people are confusing."
Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

Now, as Global Ambassador for Starlight Children's Foundation, which brightens the lives of poorly children, I visit hospitals and tell stories to the young patients. Sometimes I read. Sometimes I draw. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

I'd love to be an astronaut. I bet you get a better understanding of our planet seeing it from a distance. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to make sure that the reader understands the point that the character is trying to make. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Alice in Wonderland' inspired me. I wanted to take those themes and try to bring it into a more 21st story with aliens. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

Most will tell you what they believe to be fact because it is much harder to conceal it. It takes effort to suppress the truth. It usually eats you up from the inside out if you try to contain it in silence. In the end you have to decide what truth resides best within you ... even if your point of view does not agree with others. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action. You are a leader, Eva Nine. A hero. And you are my WondLa -Rovender ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

When you hear the words 'magic' and 'story', they will probably evoke thoughts of your favourite fairy tales from childhood. Storybook pages abound with all manner of magic: fantastical fairies, wish-granting genies, or even a certain boy wizard. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

Some things we must learn through experience. That is how one truly lives. -Rovender ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

Strength is not just in muscle and bone," Rovender said
"That is right," Soth added. "Emotional strength is more powerful. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

Usually, an author writes a manuscript that is handed in to the editor. The editor will then work with an art director to find just the right illustrator for the job, and off they go. Many times, the illustrator and author never meet. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

In some ways, you kind of take a personality and drop it on the ground, and it breaks into a bunch of little pieces, and you kind of water those pieces, and it grows into characters. So they're all me in a way. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life's few pleasures. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

But our knowledge, the things we learn, can carry on in others after we are gone ... The toil of this journey, our journey, is the man for those who will follow. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

So, Eva Nine, you must sometimes disregard what someone is saying and focus instead on what they are doing. Watch and observe. That is when one reveals his true self. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

I think about what 10-year-old Tony would want that 40-year-old Tony can make. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

Despite what you hear and say there will always be that one voice that will always be true to you. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

I would love having Winnie-the-Pooh stay here at the house. We could talk of food and what we were eating next. Maybe ponder that over a little morsel ... and then take a little nap and dream of desserts. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

The exciting thing about doing art for someone else's story is how I can translate their world through pictures, and that's always a pretty big challenge. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

There are many challenges I face while working on a book. Working within deadlines and schedules is certainly one of the bigger ones for me. I want to create the best possible book I can for my readers with words and pictures - and that takes time to get it just right. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

I obsess over things ... especially my book projects. It can be very time consuming. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

A child needs his parent at all times, Father. Not just when life is smiling down upon him -Rovender ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

Eva, I recognize your confusion. It is not always easy to understand another's spirit, especially if you do not know where to look -Rovender ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

If you want the beautiful moments to shine, you have to contrast that with dark and gruesome moments. That's the way life is. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

The most challenging and exciting aspect is the outline and formation of the plot points. This is the stage where the notion of the story begins to take shape, and I can see glimpses of what is to come. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

Never abandon imagination ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my village ... But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

True, it has given its life," Rovender said. "But its energy, its spirit, will replenish yours. Respect that and enjoy the meal. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

What are these things that this houses, Eva?" Rovender picked up a crumbling tome. He handed it to her.
"These are books," Eva said as the yellowed bits of paper flaked away in her hands to rest on the floor. "It's what humans used to put all of their writing in long ago. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

I love stories. I loved stories when I was a kid. My mom read stories to me all the time. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

I must confess that although I am quite passionate about the books I create for children, I am not the best oral storyteller. In fact, I stink at it. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

Everything was better when I was imagining it. Real things are complicated. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

With the success of 'Spiderwick,' it's allowed me to be able to have the freedom to really be able to tell the stories that I really wanted to tell, that I've always wanted to tell. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

I can't remember a time when I wasn't inspired by 'Star Wars.' ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.' ~ Tony Dorsett

The Republican party must break with its long-established instinct for caution and make a bold stand for first principles of freedom and constitutional limitations on government - from full repeal of Obamacare to rolling back multitrillion-dollar deficits. This is not so much a reproach of past Republican conduct as it is a recognition of new opportunities. ~ Tony Blankley

Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it. ~ Tony Iommi

The National Party is a dying party. ~ Tony Windsor

I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad ... he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help. ~ Boris Johnson

So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean. ~ Tony Hancock

I'm both challenged and excited. My excitement is: I get a chance to give something back. My challenge is: The shortest seminar I usually do is 50 hours. ~ Tony Robbins

We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight. ~ Tony Scott

When I won the Tony, I blacked out. I don't remember anything. I had bullet points jotted down, but I forgot to read half of them. My hands were shaking. It was an insane honor to be recognized in that way. ~ Nina Arianda

I just spend my life studying the manufacture of sound and picture and my education, if you like, has come from what I've chosen to make sounds and pictures on. ~ Tony Kaye

I always liked to be fairly simple because you could get more players ready to play quickly. If you lose players to free agency, injuries, etc., it is easier to get young players ready to play in a less complex system. ~ Tony Dungy

I always believe leaders are readers, so you've got to read 30 minutes a day of something that's going to inspire you. ~ Tony Robbins

One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in 'Line of Duty' was that I don't think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation. ~ Lennie James

Moving from desire to actually doing better is only achieved with self-discipline, and self-discipline only works effectively when you trust in Him to help. Amp up your self-discipline in the areas you need it most. ~ Tony Dungy

In 2007, researchers at the University of Bordeaux discovered that sugar has a bigger impact than hard drugs in the brain, The Health Science Academy publishes: Their experiments showed that refined sugar is 4 times more addictive than cocaine! ~ Tony Milton

The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us. ~ Tony Blair

In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice. ~ Tony Alessandra

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government. ~ Tony Campolo

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated. ~ Tony Blair

Fraternizing with your teammates is not permitted." Dex gave him a sly grin. "Who said I wanted to fraternize? I was thinking more along the lines of having hot, sweaty man sex." Tony rolled his eyes. "Same thing." "No. ~ Charlie Cochet

Tony Scott was one of the best directors I've ever worked with, and I was devastated when I heard about his death. He was a great guy with great energy. But this is a difficult business, and people's lives are sometimes difficult. ~ Christian Slater

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance. ~ Tony Scott

This, Tony, is a living land, not a construction site. This is
real and breathing, not a fabrication that can be bullied into
being. When you choose technique over relationship and
process, when you try and shortcut the speed of growing
awareness and force understanding and maturity before its time,
this - he pointed down and over the length ~ Wm. Paul Young

Let me sleep," he said, and shut the door; it clicked in her face and she felt animal terror - this was what she feared most in life: the clicking shut of a man's door in her face.
Instantly, she raised her hand to knock, discovered the rock... she banged on the door with the rock, but not loudly, just enough to let him know how desperate she was to get back in, but not enough to bother him if he didn't want to answer.
He didn't. No sound, no movement of the door. Nothing but the void.
"Tony?" she gasped, pressing her ear to the door. Silence. "Okay," she said numbly; clutching her rock she walked unsteadily across the porch toward her own living quarters.
The rock vanished. Her hand felt nothing.
"Damn," she said, not knowing how to react. Where had it gone? Into air. But then it must have been an illusion, she realized. He put me in a hypnotic state and made me believe. I should have known it wasn't really true.
A million stars burst into wheels of light, blistering, cold light, that drenched her. It came from behind and she felt the great weight of it crash into her. "Tony," she said, and fell into the waiting void. She thought nothing; she felt nothing. She saw only, saw the void as it absorbed her, waiting below and beneath her as she plummeted down the many miles.
On her hands and knees she died. Alone on the porch. Still clutching for what did not exist. ~ Philip K. Dick

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people. ~ Tony Benn

We've got guys who aren't wrapping guys up ... No matter how hard you hit them, you've still got to wrap them up. ~ Tony Dungy

When Tony lost it, it would be up to Ruger to take Lady Death by the tits and giver a good tweak. That's how he saw it. Give Lady Death's tits a good tweak. ~ Jonathan Maberry

So many people feel that they have to wait for certain experiences in order to feel the emotions they desire. For instance, they don't give themselves permission to feel loved or happy or confident unless a particular set of expectations is met. I'm here to tell you that you can feel any way you choose at any moment in time. ~ Tony Robbins

For me, once I've made a cup of tea I belong somehow. It's like I'm marking out my territory, and anyone attempting to come and make a cup of tea on my patch will be dealt with most severely, more likely than not with a counter attack into their territory and the seizure of their milk cartons and shortbread biscuits. ~ Tony Hawks

Injustice exists because men either abuse the weak or fail to defend the weak ~ Tony Merida

The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people like this. Run away from them. They're not good people. ~ Tony Kushner

Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom. ~ Tony Evans

The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment. ~ Tony Campolo

I actually did trouble to read Marx first hand. I found it illuminating in so many ways; in particular, my perception of the relationship between people and the society in which they live was irreversibly altered ~ Tony Blair