Brian Aldiss Quotes

I’ve no objection to morality, except that it’s obsolete.

Brian Aldiss

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• We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• Why not mix this and that? If soy goes well with fish, how come no one does beef carpaccio with soy? Why do we have such a taste and not another? It's all about culture. There is something, however, that I really don't like: bell peppers.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Why
  • Culture
  • Fish

• It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Sex

• I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Family
  • Fear
  • Safety

• The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Planning
  • Meeting
  • Hood

• The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion - that's the bread and butter of the show.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • People
  • Community
  • Lost

• I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Dress
  • Nerd
  • Huge

• I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • School
  • Childhood
  • Very

• There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be ahead of my time.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.

  

  C. Robert Kehler
  • Long
  • Opinion
  • Unique

• Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • End
  • Globalization

• If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Good
  • Sense
  • Too Much

• I think I am staying in Toronto. It keeps me grounded and I can be with my family and friends.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Toronto

• Sitcoms routinely portray women hitting men, almost never portray men hitting women. When he fails to leave, it is not called 'Battered Man Syndrome'; it is called comedy.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Comedy

• I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Advice
  • Explore

• A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Good
  • Mind
  • True

• It has been said that the Fed's job is to take the punch bowl away just as the party gets going, raising interest rates when the economy is growing too fast and inflation threatens.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Job
  • Growing
  • Party

• I've grown up around people who love photography, and I think from being photographed for so long, I always wanted to understand how it worked, and I've been fortunate enough to be photographed by some really wonderful photographers, and so I learnt a lot from them, and I always ask them questions.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Jesus
  • Buddha

• Growing up, 'Cosmo' was my lifeline to the world. A world that I wanted to be in but couldn't get to yet.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• Replying to the question of the presenter: 'where did the name 'Sex Pistols' come from, who thought this name up?' Some animal. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It's history.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Up
  • Remember
  • History

• I’ve no objection to morality, except that it’s obsolete.

  

  Brian Aldiss