China Mieville Quotes

I don't like allegory.

China Mieville

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• Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Women
  • Guns

• The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I have faith in my imperfections!

  

  Dana Delany
  • Faith
  • Imperfections

• I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Goals

• If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Know
  • Always
  • Doing

• The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Heaven
  • See
  • Electricity

• When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Honestly, are we ever going to get over 'California Girls' by Katy Perry? I know it's old, but that song - I love that song!

  

  Becky G
  • Song
  • Know
  • Get

• Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Writing
  • Peaceful
  • Grades

• O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • English
  • Tongue
  • Indulge

• I love Alexander Wang!

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Alexander

• I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • Desire

• The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Shadow

• Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

  

  Ada Cambridge
  • Life
  • Meaning
  • Noble

• For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Different
  • May
  • Support

• It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now - girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Die
  • Forever

• If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar,The only thing that keeps me wishing on a wishing star.He's the song in the car I keep singing, don't know why I do.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Why
  • Song
  • Star

• The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

  

  Michael Porter
  • Teacher
  • Strategy
  • Core

• Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Escape
  • Suffer
  • Never Give Up

• I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

  

  Erich Leinsdorf
  • Help
  • Prepared
  • Cuba

• If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Success
  • Face
  • Climb

• There were probably a few games I played where I should not have played, because of some nagging injuries or something. I used to always talk the managers into playing me, because I wanted to play so badly.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Me
  • Always
  • Injuries

• I don't like allegory.

  

  China Mieville