Bonnie Hammer Quotes

I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors.

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• To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • People
  • Me
  • Reason

• Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Him
  • Near
  • Unto

• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Like
  • Always
  • Thought

• Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Why

• Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Different
  • War
  • motivation

• In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • World
  • Work
  • Past

• There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Media
  • Now

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Week
  • Out

• Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Done
  • Know
  • Government

• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • History
  • Sometimes

• There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Done
  • Waiting

• Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Act
  • Prove
  • Monarchy

• For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Life
  • Up
  • House

• Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

  

  David Ricardo
  • Value

• Hoover's Music Store in Springfield, Missouri - I would listen to records there for hours.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Music

• I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Why

• I decided a long time ago to be myself and not worry too much about cultivating some kind of personality that didn't feel natural or true to who I am.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Time
  • Long
  • True

• On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every writer has to invent their own magical language, in order to describe the indescribable. They might seem to be writing in French, English, or Spanish, but really they were writing in the language of butterflies, crows, and hanged men.

  

  Heather O'Neill
  • Writing
  • Study
  • Language

• I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors.

  

  Bonnie Hammer
  • True
  • Reading
  • Literature