Deborah Harkness Quotes

My name is immaterial,' she said. That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.

Sometimes I think I'm a really interesting guy.

My instincts are not comedic.

I don't fancy myself as a very sarcastic person in real life.

I'm not that nice - it's one of those things that reveals itself over time. You could talk to people who know me well; they could give you a laundry list. Except they probably wouldn't because they're petrified.

When I really have it together, I think I successfully pull off looking like the exact middle point between Macklemore and Ron Howard, only with a much bigger forehead than either of them.

I've always thought that a name says a lot about a person. So naturally, being named Howard, I always wanted to crawl into a hole.

I never said I was consistent.

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.

But I am more than a name. More than they tell me

Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as parts of personality.

Call me bored, but don't call me boring.

I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality

Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.

I'm a jerk, that's who I am. I'm like everybody else.

I would rather be called funny than pretty.

I'm always happy. I've just got a mean face.

I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.

There's a fine line between being colorful and being an asshole, and I hope I'm still just colorful.

One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.

So, Beav, tell me about yourself." "I'm Blue." "Sweetheart, if I had your dubious taste in men, I wouldn't be too happy, either." "My name is Blue. Blue Bailey.

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

I wish my name started with a comma. That would be so dramatic.

Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.

I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter.