Jerry Pournelle Quotes
Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.Jerry Pournelle
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge -
I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
Olga Kurylenko -
Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
Malcolm Gladwell -
There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
Jack Youngblood -
I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
Walton Goggins -
Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
Edmund White -
I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
Sam Shepard -
Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
Yami Gautam -
I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
Gail Carriger -
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde -
Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson -
I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
Harmony Korine -
I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
Vin Diesel -
I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.
Rafael dos Anjos -
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Walter Scott -
I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
Felicia Day
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I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.
Babyface -
...if I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your Hilary Clinton's situation, because there has never been so many lies, so much deception. There has never been anything like it, and we’re going to have a special prosecutor.
Donald Trump -
One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.
John Podhoretz -
I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.
John Bright -
Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.
Jerry Pournelle