David Brin Quotes

A dragon’s inertia is not shifted by yanking its tail.

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• Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Sometimes
  • Saying
  • Silent

• Thinking differently is my strength.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Thinking
  • Strength

• By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Past
  • Myself
  • Worry

• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • You
  • Look

• I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Believe
  • Potential

• Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Important
  • Powerful
  • Dreams

• I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name - Steed's name.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Great
  • Pride
  • End

• In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Own
  • Talk
  • Theater

• Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • People
  • Want
  • Funny

• I love the Warner Brothers lot. There is so much history there. They've done such a smart thing. They have signs outside of each stage which tell you what movies and TV shows were shot inside. So cool... you can almost feel the ghosts of actors past.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • History
  • Cool
  • Feel

• Always follow your own path.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Path
  • Own
  • Follow

• I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • Having Fun

• There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Time
  • History
  • Control

• I know it's illegal trespassing, but I don't think it's wrong.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk

• In the formulas of 'personnel experts', men and women are to be shaped into the 'well rounded, acceptable, effective personality.' Just like small proprietors, they cannot higgle over prices, which are fixed, or 'judge the market' and accordingly buy wisely.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • Women
  • Small

• When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself.

  

  Eckhart Tolle

• They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Today

• The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Reality

• We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • World
  • Today
  • Reality

• 'I am the one you saw to-day, who fellSenseless before you, hearing a certain bell:A bell that broke great memories in my brain.'I am the one who passed unnoticed before you,Invisible, in a cloud of secret pain.'

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Great
  • Pain
  • Brain

• A dragon’s inertia is not shifted by yanking its tail.

  

  David Brin