Poul Anderson Quotes
Life isn’t a fairy tale; the knight who kills the dragon doesn’t necessarily get the princess. So what? Who’d want to live in a cosmos less rich and various than the real one?
Quotes to Explore
-
Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
-
I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
-
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
-
I don't weigh into politics.
-
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
-
The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
-
I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
-
In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
-
What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
-
I love trying new restaurants.
-
Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
-
My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.
-
The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
-
I'm lucky because I had blonde hair for a while for this TV show I was doing – they had me dye my hair blonde – and every audition I was going out for was bleach blonde. The mean girl, the pretty girlfriend, and the dumb cheerleader.
-
It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.
-
I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.
-
My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.
-
I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.
-
Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.
-
When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.
-
Life isn’t a fairy tale; the knight who kills the dragon doesn’t necessarily get the princess. So what? Who’d want to live in a cosmos less rich and various than the real one?
