Poul Anderson Quotes

You should pay no heed to what some yokel priest has prated of. What does he know?

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• It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Trying
  • Without
  • Excel

• When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • You
  • Look
  • Fancy

• I've never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjoy them.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Loved

• Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Kids
  • American
  • Fantasy

• City Year resonated with me because when I grew up, we were poor - and an education is a way out of poverty. It's a way out of the current situation that can seem isolating and hopeless for some kids.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Education

• Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Long
  • History
  • Potential

• I do Pilates. And that's best for me... because I can't really do any other sports any more because of my muscles.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Me
  • Best
  • Sports

• I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.

  

  Jack Whittaker
  • Care
  • Costs
  • Lottery

• I found, after the experience of making 'Shaun Of The Dead' and then returning to the blank page - because 'Shaun Of The Dead' was the first screenplay I ever wrote properly - the experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Experience
  • First
  • Page

• I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Live
  • Love
  • Want

• I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Good
  • School
  • Pretty

• I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Understanding

• The group is only interested in the formal publishing of individuals for the purpose of establishing their social solidarity.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Purpose

• Christianity will go.. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Rock
  • Jesus
  • Popular

• She broke off, unable to find words to frame her struggling thoughts. What life would be with Hori, she did not know. In spite of his gentleness, in spite of his love for her, he would remain in some respects incalculable and incomprehensible. They would share moments of great beauty and richness together - but what of their common daily life?

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Life
  • Great
  • She

• Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?

  

  Alex Steffen
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Today

• Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Great
  • Art
  • Goddess

• It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Important
  • Door

• Often, I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of the day, and it's a horrible feeling to realize something wasn't just a bland statement but was actually cruel. But then, we're all capable of things that are breathtakingly cruel.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Feeling
  • Bullying

• I hope that I can be an inspiration to kids that are young and may feel different or may feel like they don't belong.

  

  Jonathan Knight
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Inspiration

• Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Door
  • Field
  • Horizon

• As Christianity grew, it eventually converted intellectuals to the faith, who were well equipped to discuss and dismiss the charges typically raised against the Christians. The writings of these intellectuals are sometimes called apologies, from the Greek word for “defense” (apologia). The apologists wrote intellectual defenses of the new faith, trying to show that far from being a threat to the social structure of the empire, it was a religion that preached moral behavior; and far from being a dangerous superstition, it represented the ultimate truth in its worship of the one true God. These apologies were important for early Christian readers, as they provided them with the arguments they needed when themselves faced with persecution.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Faith
  • Christianity
  • Greek

• You should pay no heed to what some yokel priest has prated of. What does he know?

  

  Poul Anderson