David Brin Quotes

The man talked, but somehow nothing he said seemed to make any sense.

David Brin

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• Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Capitalism
  • Fascism
  • Plus

• We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Real
  • Home

• I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • Game
  • Always

• However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Man
  • Now
  • Gifts

• A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Small

• I would never totally deny myself any specific type of food.

  

  Fleur East
  • Food
  • Myself
  • Never

• I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Interviews

• When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Kind
  • Feel
  • Doing

• If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Power
  • Spirit
  • Cooperation

• Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Bad
  • Habit
  • Rather

• In my film 'Queen', there was a funny moment with the bra. My director called and said they are blurring the bra. They said it is vulgar. Our director was furious about it. We are artistes... We see props as they are. A woman's bra is not a danger to the society.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Society
  • Funny
  • Woman

• I’m just giving of my body on the stage and putting my life at risk, literally. ... And I think about it. I think about my family and I’m like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something.

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • Family
  • War

• Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk

• A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Good
  • Bad
  • True

• Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died. In vain they schem'd, in vain they bled! They had no poet, and are dead.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Pride

• Like a whirling wind which rushes down a sandy and hollow valley, and which, in its hasty course, drives to its centre every thing that opposes its furious course... No otherwise does the Northern blast whirl round in its tempestuous progress...

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Progress
  • Wind

• Two lovers, here at the corner, by the steeple,Two lovers blow together like music blowing:And the crowd dissolves about them like a sea.Recurring waves of sound break vaguely about them,They drift from wall to wall, from tree to tree.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Music
  • Together
  • Wall

• Balance your thoughts with action. - If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Done

• Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Lazy

• I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

  

  Li Bingbing
  • Good
  • Children
  • Parents

• I am very proud I was part of the IRA in Derry and involved in repelling the designs of the British state forces against people who were being treated as second- and third-class citizens.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • People
  • Proud

• We can never completely prevent another tragedy like the Boston Marathon attacks from happening. But every American should ask themselves if their community is as prepared as it could be.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • American
  • Community

• My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The spicy teas and tasty delicacies I prepare from wild ingredients are the bread and wine in which I have communion and fellowship with nature, and with the Author of that nature.

  

  Euell Gibbons
  • Relationship
  • Author
  • Satisfied

• The man talked, but somehow nothing he said seemed to make any sense.

  

  David Brin