David Brin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
-
Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
-
I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
-
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
-
All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
-
Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
-
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
-
I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
-
I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
-
I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
-
I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.
-
I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.
Nastassja Kinski
-
I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.
-
Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
-
I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
-
I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.
-
I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
-
Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.
-
I fell so hard for the theater. I knew it was a place where you can sort out your life.
-
It seems to me that every step forward in my life has been one that brings me to a better understanding of this: that you do your thing every day the best that you can, and you approach any success at it with humility.
-
Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
-
I grew up watching the 'Muppets.' In New Zealand, the 'Muppets' were as big as anywhere else I think. It was a pretty global phenomenon.
-
When given the opportunity to fail myself or fail someone else, I choose to fail myself.
-
At her station in life, wisdom dictated keeping a low profile.And yet...
