Brian Aldiss Quotes
As Flitch dryly remarked when Greybeard commented on the graveyard, 'Ah, they keep a-planting of ’em, but there ain’t any more of ’em growing up.'
Brian Aldiss
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
Harold Pinter
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
Ueli Gegenschatz
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
Randy Newman
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
Hanya Yanagihara
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
S. Jay Olshansky
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
Lady Gregory
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
Adam Carolla
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
V. S. Naipaul
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
Wayne Newton
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
Karl Urban
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
Kali Hawk
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Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
Victoria Strauss
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I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, 'This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.' The banana in Congo is called 'Dikembe.' So my uncle start calling me, 'Dikembe, Dikembe, look at you Dikembe, you cannot even stand up.' It took a long time for me to walk.
Dikembe Mutombo
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Hollywood is just a bunch of middlemen, people trying to facilitate content transfer between creators and viewers.
Freddie Wong
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The Indian government is extraordinarily large, and it is difficult to try and believe that one leader can make all the change. This is a federal system.
Anand Mahindra
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And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.
Oswald Chambers
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As Flitch dryly remarked when Greybeard commented on the graveyard, 'Ah, they keep a-planting of ’em, but there ain’t any more of ’em growing up.'
Brian Aldiss
