Brian Aldiss Quotes

If you think with your emotions, slight glandular changes are sufficient to revise your entire outlook.

Brian Aldiss

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• I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • More
  • U.S.
  • Stones

• My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Question
  • Constitution

• I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Movies
  • Right
  • Thing

• Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Great
  • Advice

• Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Live
  • Together
  • Peace

• As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Man
  • Control

• To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • War
  • Death
  • Know

• The thing about Drew Goddard and Mike Schur is that they are legit geniuses, and they love storytelling. They love creating worlds, love messing with the audience; they love doing things that we don't expect. To get to be a part of that is too good to be true.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Good
  • Love
  • True

• The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Great
  • Job

• Probably the only type of cosmetic surgery I'd consider is having my bust reduced. It's alright for my current role in 'The Marquise' because it's a costume drama, which means boned corsets and a bit of cleavage, but it's a drag otherwise.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Drama
  • Surgery
  • Costume

• Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • People
  • Me
  • Attention

• The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Truth
  • Honesty
  • Greatest

• I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Difficult
  • Try
  • Dinner

• Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Lies

• You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • You
  • Always
  • Performance

• Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

  

  Nancy Banks Smith
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Love
  • Vegetarian
  • Seafood

• My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.

  

  Ellen Pompeo
  • Time
  • Family
  • Kids

• As I got more into gay rights, I got more into equal pay, and you just see that it's all connected. You can't really speak out on one thing and not another without it not being the full picture.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Picture
  • Gay

• I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Football

• It seems that for many the cure to acne is at the end of their fork, not in a prescription pad.

  

  Mark Hyman

• When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

  

  Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Space

• If you think with your emotions, slight glandular changes are sufficient to revise your entire outlook.

  

  Brian Aldiss