Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
-
What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
-
Everybody thinks they deserve something.
-
I never really learned photography.
-
I completely get the drag thing.
-
I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
-
Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
-
I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
-
Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
-
The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
-
I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
-
Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
-
A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
-
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
-
The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.
-
I definitely like wearing leotards.
-
There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just listen to that every day, because the album feels like, if it were a film, it would be black and white. It feels like there's a war percolating throughout the album itself. It's dark, and it has a nice forward pace to it.
-
I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
-
What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the greatest revolution of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens.
-
I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
-
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-
I have appealed to the constitution and laws of my country; if they fail to protect me, I appeal to God, and with Him I cheerfully rest my cause. I can die at my post, but I cannot desert it.
-
Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.
-
If you act like a servant, you will die like a dog.
