Brian Aldiss Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
-
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
-
Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
-
Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
-
You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
-
That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
-
All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
-
I always have the impression that I write the same book.
-
Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
-
We grow small trying to be great.
-
The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
-
I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.
-
For the longest time, I was trying to be DJ Shadow, I think. But I slowly developed my own style. It was trial and error, for sure.
-
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
-
We need to work tirelessly to help create new jobs and good jobs here in Florida.
-
Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity, and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies.
-
Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?
-
I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
-
No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.
-
It's really hard for me to meet someone. I don't want to date actors. Been there, done that. Only one actor per household, please.
-
Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
-
My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.
-
Austin is a big music town, so growing up, I had a lot of local heroes. Toni Price I was very, very into; she was one of the first people I tried to emulate. She's a local Austin blues artist. Marsha Paul I was also a very big fan of.
-
She had tried to love him.
