Brian Aldiss Quotes

Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It’s patriotic to overconsume.

Brian Aldiss

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• Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to enjoy water sports, camping, fishing, or just to relax and catch a sunset.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Love
  • Enjoy
  • Place

• I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Want
  • See
  • News

• Being in water makes me relax instantly.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Me
  • Water
  • Being

• To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Help
  • Information
  • Yoga

• People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Remember
  • Die

• I am not cocky or real showboatish.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Showboatish

• One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Me
  • Learned
  • Relax

• The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Want
  • Single
  • King

• On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Religious

• I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going on - people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don't have those issues.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Trying
  • Relax

• You go to Paris, or you go to Portugal, you go to Poland, and you ask, 'Who are you people?' They'll tell you, we're Portuguese, we're Spanish, we're Polish. Who are the people that are really European? The people in Brussels, in the E.U. bureaucracy. Europe has not been able to move to the level of patriotic identification with the concept.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • You
  • Paris

• Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Men
  • Gold

• With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Why
  • Want
  • Year

• As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my house, it's hard for me to relax. I'm too obsessed with whether everyone's having a good time.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Sleep

• Some people might say I need to learn how to relax.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • People
  • Learn
  • Relax

• I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Beautiful
  • Poetry
  • Enjoy

• I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Patriotic

• Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.

  

  Larry David
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Mirror

• It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Way
  • Advice
  • Shopping

• 'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was a kid I didn't. You've gotta have a certain level of understanding yourself before that stuff really starts to resonate.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • You
  • Taken

• Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Work
  • Knowledge
  • Action

• We respect the freedom of all citizens. Young people should have fun, but there is no tolerance of drug abuse. Drugs have become a serious problem in Vietnam. This is why we have very strict penalties for any sort of drug dealing.

  

  Nguyen Minh Triet
  • Tolerance
  • Drugs
  • Penalties

• Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It’s patriotic to overconsume.

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • Relax
  • Patriotic