David Brin Quotes

Anyone who tries to predict the future is inevitably a fool. Present company included. A prophet without a sense of humor is just stupid.

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• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Fan
  • Matt Morrison
  • Lea Michele

• It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Law
  • Evil
  • Ignorance

• I would describe my sound as classic Motown.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Sound
  • Classic
  • Describe

• I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Want
  • Desire
  • Period

• Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Fear
  • Meeting

• I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Want

• I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Time
  • Me
  • Painting

• What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Romantic

• I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Human
  • Turn

• I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • You
  • Driving

• Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Course

• When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Pretty

• I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Trying
  • Know
  • Always

• I think people thought I was crazy for leaving Mexico when I had any project I wanted falling at my feet. But I risked everything to come to Los Angeles, where no one knew who I was, and start all over again. It was a very hard step to take. However, it was the moment I thought it was right to take a risk in my career.

  

  Karla Souza
  • People
  • Career
  • Crazy

• I work in waves because I'm impatient. It has to be done. I take liberties.

  

  Cy Twombly
  • Work
  • Done
  • Waves

• There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Nature
  • Wise
  • Fool

• He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Up
  • Good
  • Game

• I think that when you have kids, it's all about them.

  

  Lauren Conrad
  • Kids

• I start off on the canvas and, little by little, it imposes its own solution. But that solution is not easy to find.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Canvas
  • Solution
  • Imposes

• Anyone who tries to predict the future is inevitably a fool. Present company included. A prophet without a sense of humor is just stupid.

  

  David Brin
  • Future
  • Present
  • Stupid