Bruce Sterling Quotes

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

Bruce Sterling

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• I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.

  

  Kajol
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Way

• Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Long
  • Face
  • Independence

• I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Coffee

• No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Better
  • Satisfaction

• Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Guy
  • You
  • Nice

• I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Romantic

• I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Question
  • Always
  • Trouble

• I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Funny
  • They Say

• The first important movie that I did, I shaved my head for the movie. When the hair grew back, I had white hair for the first time in my life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • People
  • World
  • Two

• You don't let being the first to do it stop you or get in the way.

  

  Halima Aden
  • You
  • Way
  • Stop

• From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.

  

  Ferdinand Buisson
  • War
  • Day
  • Progress

• I vowed I would bring you solace in time of need. Please don't make me break my vows.

  

  E. L. James
  • Time

• A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Truth
  • Friends
  • Distance

• Why be afraid to make an honest mistake?

  

  Demi Lovato
  • Why
  • Mistake

• Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

  

  Edward Young

• The people finally know. They've been told about the mutants. And they hated the mutants. Of course, they hated them. They hated them because the existence of the mutants makes them second-class humans, because they are Neanderthalers suddenly invaded by a bow and arrow people.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • People

• There is no 'stop' - there's always 'go' on both sides: always keep writing, always keep recording. I don't find them to be segmented processes.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Writing
  • Stop

• Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Land
  • Pitfalls
  • Overbold

• I'm all about working. I'm a really hard worker, and I'm taking advantage of all those different opportunities, on the music and acting side, because I love both.

  

  Diego Boneta
  • Working
  • Opportunities
  • Advantage

• It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • War
  • Details
  • Harder

• When I see the move of RFID into universities, it concerns me, ... It is sending a message that not only do we not have to worry about privacy but you can profit from it by a career perspective.

  

  Katherine Albrecht
  • Worry
  • Perspective
  • Message

• I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Free

• I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

  

  Bruce Sterling