ZZ Ward Quotes

You want to poof it or ride back with me?

Cause nothing said lovin' like a shitload of motion detectors.

Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.

I could take you down on this sidewalk and be up that skirt of yours in a heartbeat. And you wouldn't fight me, would you? No, she probably wouldn't. Wrath and Beth

Tore up from the floor up. Followed by a big outtie. John Mathew

John? As it was dark he whistled a what. You are such a male of worth, you know that. You really are.

People going in the wrong direction will get like that. Round pegs just don't fit in square holes.

Sorry, you're on the ride now, and there's no getting off in the middle.

The one good thing about the Angels was they always colored within the lines. They had to. Suckers.

When I want you to beg, I'll tell you.

This was the gift of recovery, he thought. The ability to be here in this moment with the female he loved and be fully aware, fully awake, fully present. Undiluted.

Life is too frickin' crazy sometimes, it really is.... You never know what's going to happen, do you.

Wrath jammed a finger in V’s face. “Don’t follow me. We clear? You don’t follow me.” “You stupid fool,” V said with total exhaustion. “You’re the king. We all must follow you.

Without time,” the angel said, “you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity.” “FYI, philosophy bores me.” “Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.

Even the powerful needed protection sometimes.

So will you meet me?” “Yeah. Sure. Where.” “Montrag’s safe house in Connecticut. If you were the one who killed him, you know the address.

After a moment the king said, "So be it." Zsadist cursed. Butch whistled low. Rhage bit into a Tootsie Pop.

I wanted to be my own heroine.

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

I think that I'm trying to hopefully change my children's ideas about what is possible, and about what is possible for them.

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African diaspora, people of this region, and throughout the south.

There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.

Hope died as I was led unto my marriage bed.

I never could be good when I was not happy.

The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, "We stop here; do you stop also.

Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.

My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me.

I was born 'neath a clouded star.

The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.

It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.

Philosophy only seems to offer endless dispute, with no cakes and ale.

I think anybody who has been in Washington for almost 40 years has been there too long.

I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.

I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.

Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.

I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.

Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.

I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.

I have a very strong belief in God.

I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

There's at least one fist bump every interview.

I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?

I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.

When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.