Brian Aldiss Quotes

They came, by what means he did not know, from outside, the vast abstraction that none of them had ever seen. He had a mental picture of a starry void in which men and monsters swam or battled, and then swiftly erased it. Such ideas did not conform with the quiet behavior of his companions; if they never spoke about outside, did they think about it?

Brian Aldiss

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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.

Warren Spector
- People
- Life
- Thinking
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

Ralph Fiennes
- Good
- Never
- Rugby
I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.

Gavin MacLeod
- People
- Time
- Busy
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

Naomi Klein
- Rich
- Poor
- Africa
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

E. L. Doctorow
- People
- Why
- History
There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.

Edith Widder
- Good
- Why
- Pretty