Gene Wolfe Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
-
If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
-
As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.
-
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
-
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
-
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
-
But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
-
I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
-
Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
-
I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
-
Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
-
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
-
I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.
-
I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
-
What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
-
One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
-
There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
-
If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.
-
The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth. p. 92
-
To play mixed doubles: hit the girl whenever possible.
-
There is not a single desirable attribute which, lacking in a plant, may not be bred into it. Choose what improvement you wish in a flower, a fruit, or a tree, and by crossing, selection, cultivation, and persistence you can fix this desirable trait irrevocably.
-
Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.
-
I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
-
When a tree is very old, yet still lives, sometimes the limbs are strangely twisted.
