David Brin Quotes
Life is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
Quotes to Explore
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters or Stratford as one of the places. Shakespeare is in one sense present at every moment in every play.
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I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there.
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I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.
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I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
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I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved that way.
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Life is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
