Dan Simmons Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
-
When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.
-
Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
-
The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
-
I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.
-
A ton of kids at school have made fun of me; if I had to give advice to other girls, I would say, 'Hang loose and ignore them. They shouldn't faze you no matter how popular they think they are.'
-
This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.
-
I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
-
When I talk about the Internet, it's because young people are there. TV and radio are still what moves the masses, and you can't ignore that. But you also have to feed that monster that grows daily, which is the Internet.
-
There's more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would still ignore them, probably.
-
I'm pretty sure the last time any anchor could honestly ignore ratings was well before I was born.
-
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
-
It's important for people to recognize that they shouldn't ignore symptoms like shortness of breath or a cough that won't go away, because these may be signs of COPD.
-
If you have doubt about a person's humility or smarts, don't ignore it. More often than not, there is something causing that doubt.
-
Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
-
If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!
-
I always ignore money.
-
When I started losing business to salespeople who were using used-car salesmen kind of tactics, I realized I can't ignore the EQ thing; it's going to kill sales.
-
If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.
-
Often, everybody is comfortable with their role in life, and they forget about the people who are uncomfortable.
-
I don't think it's an exciting thing to move back in with your parents.
-
People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.
-
'I ignore religions,' said Brawne Lamia. 'I do not succumb to them.'
