Frederik Pohl Quotes

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

Frederik Pohl

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• I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Love
  • Things
  • Moment

• A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Bad
  • Simple
  • Beginning

• Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

  

  Ed Koch
  • Get
  • Leave
  • Manhattan

• I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Single

• I have always loved animals since I was very young.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Animals

• I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Believe
  • Safety
  • Bus

• I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Character
  • Judge

• There is too little courtship in the world.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • World
  • Little
  • Courtship

• I like conflict - someone who challenges me, someone who I can look up to, someone who can keep me in check. Love has to be extraordinary; otherwise, there's no point in it. I just haven't met anyone who's made me feel that way.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Challenges

• I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

  

  Jack Whittaker
  • Share
  • Businessman
  • Simply

• The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Beginning

• We've seen a tremendous rise in the level of anti-Muslim bigotry in our society - and against minorities of all kinds - but we've also seen a tremendous rise in support.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Society
  • Support
  • Rise

• It goes without saying that it's important to vote.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Important
  • Vote
  • Saying

• My greatest joy is seeing parents and kids playing Disney 'Epic Mickey' together, handing the controllers back and forth, helping each other out.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Parents

• There was such idiot minstrelsy in rain, So many clappers going without bells, That these bethous compose a heavenly gong. One voice repeating, one tireless chorister, The phrases of a single phrase, ke-ke, A single text, granite monotony

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Single
  • Rain
  • Text

• Civilisational triumph is important because if it is not actively sought, conflictual relations between members of geo-cultural domains may become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Important
  • May

• A spark without its fire, a drop without its sea, Without rebirth what more, pray, wouldst thou be?

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Fire
  • Sea

• I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very exciting.

  

  Bela Karolyi
  • Growth

• I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • Up
  • City
  • Bored

• Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

  

  Tacitus
  • Honest
  • Crime
  • Vigor

• My No. 1 goal in racing was never to be the most popular driver.

  

  Brad Keselowski
  • Goal
  • Racing
  • Driver

• What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Passion

• My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

  

  Frederik Pohl