Laura Anne Gilman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.
-
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
-
I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
-
Let the path be open to talent.
-
Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
-
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
-
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
-
Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.
-
I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
-
I generally fall sick if I eat very heavy food.
-
The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.
-
I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.
-
It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.
-
Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he's very feminine.
-
Obviously ,you want to demand the puck; you want to have it as much as you can because you feel like good things can happen when it's on your stick.
-
I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion’s sake.
-
Mom! It's the cops! I'm gonna get nicked, I'm gonna get nicked!
-
A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
-
Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
-
A runner fell, and this caused a big pileup in which that runner got trampled and spiked, ... When we looked back 10 seconds later, the guy was still on the ground.
-
Call it not paranoia, but caution.
