Norman Spinrad Quotes

The appreciation of the connoisseur is the highest pleasure of the artiste.

Norman Spinrad

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• Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Book
  • Practice
  • Better

• No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Real
  • Business
  • Day

• Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Way
  • You
  • Wrong

• We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • God
  • Earth

• I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Men
  • History

• Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Long
  • Live
  • War

• Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Country
  • Vote
  • Voting

• My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Father
  • Parents

• Your mind is nirvana.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Mind

• Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?

  

  Chris Abani
  • Writing

• My restless spirit never could endureTo brood so long upon one luxury,Unless it did, though fearfully, espyA hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

  

  John Keats
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Dream

• Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Election
  • Anita Hill
  • Debacle

• Thank you for loving me For being my eyes When I couldn't see For parting my lips When I couldn?t breathe Thank you for loving me

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Music
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• We may express them [emotions] physically slightly differently, and it's of course graded depending on the circumstance, but the essence of the process is going to be the same, unless one of us is not quite well put together and is missing something, otherwise it's going to be the same.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • May
  • Together
  • Process

• I have always found clowns really fascinating, especially on film. Even as a kid I was never scared of them.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Kids
  • Film
  • Scared

• Oh, I'm ready. Are you ready? It doesn't matter if you're ready!!!

  

  Harry Edward Kane
  • Matter
  • Ready
  • Wwe

• I know what I want when I start a marathon: to win! But what do you want? Make sure you're clear in advance and don't go out too fast.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Want
  • Winning
  • Marathon

• There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Family
  • Father
  • Rich

• Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.

  

  Peter Brook
  • Revolution
  • Tradition
  • Revolutionary

• Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude

  

  Paul Auster
  • Men
  • Book
  • Solitude

• Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

  

  Celia Imrie
  • Hurt
  • Selfish
  • Awful

• There is really a whole new appreciation when you leave and then come back.

  

  Hunter Tylo
  • Appreciation
  • Whole

• The appreciation of the connoisseur is the highest pleasure of the artiste.

  

  Norman Spinrad
  • Pleasure
  • Appreciation
  • Artiste