David A. Clarke, Jr. Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
-
Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
-
I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
-
I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
-
That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
-
Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
-
I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
-
I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
-
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
-
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
-
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
-
Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
-
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
-
Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
-
My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
-
Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
-
I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat.
-
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
-
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
-
Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.
-
We have a generation of black actors playing leading roles on film and TV - Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor - which is great and is breaking the mould.
-
What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?
-
My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.
-
The members of Black Lives Matter Movement are 'subhuman creeps.'
