David Gerrold Quotes

Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.

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• You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • House
  • You
  • Leave

• I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Funny

• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Artist

• I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Important
  • Small

• Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Want
  • Violence
  • Gift

• The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Great
  • Different
  • America

• Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Time
  • Great
  • America

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Stupid
  • Enough
  • Nobody

• I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Offer
  • CSI

• In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

  

  P. D. James
  • People
  • Today
  • Guilty

• For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Reading
  • Hands
  • Early

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Dreams
  • Achieve
  • Her

• Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Work
  • Space
  • Dress

• We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Pretty
  • Everyone
  • Whiskey

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have to tell you, I got all of my attributes from them, obviously, the tangibles, the intangibles. Particularly my work ethic, my dedication.

  

  Bruce Smith
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Father

• I had done a lot of running in 'Texas Chainsaw' and sword-fighting in 'Percy Jackson,' which taught me to fall properly.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Done
  • Running
  • Fall

• Having rationalized his economic syste, that is, having saturated it with consciousness and planfulness, man will not leave a trace of the present stagnant and worm-eaten domestic life.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Life
  • Present

• It is now possible to target adverts to the right person at the right time in the right place. But that is not enough.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Time

• Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great