Barry B. Longyear Quotes

As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape--fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.

Barry B. Longyear

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• I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Voice
  • New
  • New York

• The thing about curly hair is that it's a toss-up. Some days you can let it air dry and it's better than a hair-do, but some days you just look like a sloppy person. I'm really resistant to a trim. I only do it when it gets hard to brush out in the shower, then I'll submit, begrudgingly.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Air

• I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Said

• I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

  

  Randall Park
  • Good
  • Work
  • Good Work

• Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Good
  • Real
  • You

• Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Look
  • Orange

• Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Myself

• I love good food. I'm an epicurean, that's for sure... But I am not really a good cook.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Good
  • Food
  • Cook

• I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Growing
  • Loss

• If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. I think it's important to have substance for what you're saying.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Good
  • Important
  • Done

• O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• The system was aided by the Church, whose natural interests allied it more to the great than to the meek.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Great
  • Church

• My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Work
  • Eyes

• Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth - the irrational.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Life
  • Real
  • Earth

• The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • Man
  • Proud
  • Humble

• One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done alone. It is through talking with others and sharing that progress is made.

  

  Carol W. Greider
  • Different
  • Done
  • Career

• The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

  

  Buddha
  • World
  • Truth
  • Wise

• My mom is a gym teacher, and she's not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • Music
  • She
  • Help

• I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

  

  Martin Freeman

• I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames.

  

  Pal Benko
  • Player
  • Study
  • Chess

• The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.

  

  William James
  • Attention
  • Made
  • Aspect

• As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape--fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.

  

  Barry B. Longyear
  • Wonder
  • Animals
  • Dragons