David Brin Quotes
From you, my boy, I expect no less than the completely preposterous and utterly calamitous.
Quotes to Explore
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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For so long I wanted to win the gold medal. Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.
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Anxiety is so pervasive in my work, it's like it's not even a thing because it's always there. Like air. I have to work through a layer of anxiety to get to anything else. It's embarrassing to me when people point out to me all the anxiety I portray in my work. I don't ever want to write about anxiety again but it'd be like leaving a huge gap in the picture.
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It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.
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How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?
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Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
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From you, my boy, I expect no less than the completely preposterous and utterly calamitous.
