Gene Wolfe Quotes
'You’re a poet too, aren’t you? And a good liar, I bet.''I was the Autarch of Urth; that required a little lying, if you like. We called it diplomacy.'
Quotes to Explore
-
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
-
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
-
I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
-
I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
-
Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
-
What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
-
I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
-
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
-
I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
-
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
-
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
-
I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
-
It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
-
It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
-
All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
-
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
-
I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
-
So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
-
I'm painfully a realist but ruthlessly an optimist. I think maybe it's because of my faith - I've always got the hope that there is something out there to make it all worthwhile.
-
I always describe Facebook and Twitter to some extent as 'them time': it's time about the world and what's outside of you. Pinterest, for a lot of users, is 'me time.' What do I want my future to be? Who am I? What are the things I want to do?
-
I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.
-
To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.
-
The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good.
-
'You’re a poet too, aren’t you? And a good liar, I bet.''I was the Autarch of Urth; that required a little lying, if you like. We called it diplomacy.'
