Fred Saberhagen Quotes

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

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• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

  

  Edmund White
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Man

• The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Wisdom

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Moral
  • Courage
  • Animal

• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Violence

• That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Always
  • Word
  • Fan

• Everybody has their struggles.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Everybody
  • Struggles

• Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Good
  • Cool
  • Story

• Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Work
  • Women
  • Everything

• It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Science
  • Reason
  • Authority

• Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • True
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Lost

• It's the way you ride the trail that counts.

  

  Dale Evans
  • You
  • Ride
  • Trail

• In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • First
  • Celebrity
  • Crush

• I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Free
  • Training
  • Enjoy

• Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.

  

  John Bright
  • Great
  • Effort

• The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Movie

• 'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Existence

• I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

  

  Fred Saberhagen
  • Writing
  • Age