David Brin Quotes

'You think I'm kidding?' the pilot asked.'No, we think you're crazy.'

David Brin

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• Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Home
  • Running
  • Enjoy

• For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Important
  • Thought
  • Differences

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Stop
  • Television

• With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Popular

• Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Position
  • Arts
  • Lillian Gish

• My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Motherhood
  • Pious

• People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them – I'm not so sure they could see the potential in me.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Me
  • Hard

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Great
  • Change

• There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Question
  • Problems
  • Blind

• I don't think there are enough stories told about black men and their relationships and how they build and bond with one another.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Men
  • Black
  • Relationships

• We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Government
  • Financial

• I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.

  

  Dana Hill
  • People
  • Me
  • Look

• When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • You
  • Emotional
  • Emotions

• The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Decision
  • Right
  • Percent

• Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Die

• 'The Nutcracker' is the ballet that keeps on giving.

  

  David H. Koch
  • Giving
  • Ballet

• I'm not conscious of being a revolutionary. This is my life, looking through my glasses at my little world, but this world seems to be full of people who understand it.

  

  Alessandro Michele
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I have crazy friends, so a lot of times when we're out, people recognize me on the street, but they will yell, 'This is Cameron Boyce!' and just run! They do that. Then I'm in the middle of the street with people looking at me.

  

  Cameron Boyce
  • People
  • Friends
  • Crazy

• Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.

  

  Bobby Farrelly Boney M.
  • Life
  • Long
  • Real

• 'You think I'm kidding?' the pilot asked.'No, we think you're crazy.'

  

  David Brin
  • Crazy