Norman Spinrad Quotes

Was not the arbitrary distinction between illusion and reality the ultimate illusion itself?

Norman Spinrad

• Reality
• Illusion
• Distinction

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Struggle
  • Chaos

• The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Film
  • Latin

• I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Life
  • Up
  • War

• Glamorized... am I glamorous?

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Glamorous
  • Am

• I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Good
  • Future
  • Good Things

• I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!

  

  Warren Spector
  • School
  • New York
  • Stand

• He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Wonder
  • Wonders
  • Itself

• The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • You
  • Worst
  • Test

• The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Life
  • Father

• Dream within a dream, Our dream deferred. Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Good
  • Dream
  • Morning

• But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People

• It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.

  

  Christo
  • Work
  • Important
  • Vision

• I think it's really important for managers to be liked by his players because ultimately, on the pitch, those players will give everything for their manager.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Important

• The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Time

• It's neither my job nor within my capabilities to save people. But a book sure can try.

  

  Lauren Myracle
  • People
  • Job
  • Book

• Fashion is a mirror, reflecting the culture.

  

  Bill Cunningham The Box Tops
  • Culture
  • Fashion
  • Mirror

• In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Moving

• The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • True

• There is no great difference in reality between one country and another, because it is always people you meet everywhere. They may look different or be dressed differently, they may have a different education or position; but they are all the same. They are all people to be loved.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Different
  • Country

• The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

  

  Christian Lacroix

• I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Horse
  • Dead
  • Slept

• Was not the arbitrary distinction between illusion and reality the ultimate illusion itself?

  

  Norman Spinrad
  • Reality
  • Illusion
  • Distinction