Kate Wilhelm Quotes

The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history.

Kate Wilhelm

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• Mankind
• Philosophical
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• I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Everyone

• The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • God
  • Faith
  • Sister

• Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Different
  • Character
  • Experience

• I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • True
  • Sense
  • Equality

• In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Eyes
  • Wonder
  • Better

• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Taste

• I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Work
  • Success

• I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Woman
  • Old
  • Diet

• I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Musicians

• When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Universe

• This simple form of repression, of using the method of not letting anyone speak, will never succeed.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Simple

• I think in terms of the parents that I had, I sort of drew a bad hand, or bad karma; who knows? And I did have a family that was complicated, with some quite eccentric members. So there was a lot of grist there.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Parents

• In Mexic,o the concept of a sitcom doesn't actually exist - even if you do a sitcom, technically speaking, because it airs from Monday to Friday, they put it in the telenovela category. But, of course, I am from Mexico and grew up with the telenovela culture.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Friday

• The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.

  

  Jared Diamond
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Learning

• The status quo is simply unacceptable.

  

  Brad Henry

• I've had enough of the blowhards on cable TV and the self-righteous anger I hear from people whose only accomplishment in life is their ability to turn the dial on an AM radio.

  

  James Carville
  • People
  • Life
  • Accomplishment

• At the end of 'Afterlife' - hmm, how do I do this without spoilers - Skye took a very strange journey that crossed the boundary between life and death. And now, for her, that boundary is permanently blurred.

  

  Claudia Gray
  • Life
  • Death
  • Journey

• No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Parent

• Affectation is the product of falsehood.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Product
  • Affection
  • Falsehood

• I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence.

  

  Wayne LaPierre
  • Thinking
  • Violence
  • President

• In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

  

  Avi
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history.

  

  Kate Wilhelm
  • Science
  • Mankind
  • Philosophical