Brian Aldiss Quotes

Why don’t you go somewhere quietly and consult your history books if you have no consciences to consult?

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• I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Home
  • Start
  • Talking

• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Model

• Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Up
  • Love
  • Acting

• The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • More

• China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

  

  Cao Cao
  • World
  • Me
  • Rather

• A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Prince
  • Reward
  • Slow

• Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Country
  • Identity
  • Diversity

• I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Knows
  • Talking

• I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Great
  • Moral
  • Courage

• Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Life
  • Family
  • Parents

• One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • Life
  • You
  • Road

• God primes the pump of obligation.

  

  A. P. Martinich
  • God
  • Obligation
  • Pump

• With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Why
  • Food
  • Change

• Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Good
  • Nothing
  • Taxes

• I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Why
  • Find
  • Curious

• My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Work
  • Family
  • Individual

• I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.

  

  Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
  • Music
  • Bad
  • Listening

• I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Love
  • You
  • Just

• We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Music
  • Business
  • Success

• I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade - relentlessly, mercilessly - by a group of 12-year-old girls. And it left me with a determination that no matter what, I had to throw my shoulders back, stick out my chin, and project a sense that no one and nothing could hurt me. That turned out to be a life-changing mistake.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Life
  • Hurt
  • Mistake

• Sonata form could not be defined until it was dead. Czerny claimed with pride around 1840 that he was the first to describe it, but then it was already part of history.

  

  Charles Rosen
  • History
  • Pride

• Why don’t you go somewhere quietly and consult your history books if you have no consciences to consult?

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • Why
  • History