Jerry Pournelle Quotes
There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years.
Jerry Pournelle
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
G. Gordon Liddy
No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
Olivia Wilde
We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
Daniel Barenboim
I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
Valerie Simpson
My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
Jack Kerouac
It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
Yvette Nicole Brown
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
Ouida
My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
Jack Ma
I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
Harley Viera-Newton
I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
F. Sionil Jose
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
Bodhidharma
As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.
Martha Beck
The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.
Caitlin Rose
My own ambitions were eclectic. My father ran a steel plant, and I was expected to study metallurgy and end up at the steel plant when I finished high school at age 15. Despite my proficiency at science, I decided against it and instead went on to study filmmaking.
Anand Mahindra
Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?
William James
There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years.
Jerry Pournelle
