Daryl Gregory Quotes

Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling.

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• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Music
  • Always
  • Thought

• I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Time
  • Reason
  • Season

• Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Different
  • Facebook

• I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Fun
  • Like
  • Have Fun

• I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Play
  • Language
  • Silent

• I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • You
  • President

• I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Style
  • Moving
  • Whatever

• As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Friends
  • Society
  • College

• Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Stop
  • Fashion
  • Like

• We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Why
  • Know
  • Day

• I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.

  

  Rachael Leigh
  • Small
  • Space

• I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Good
  • May
  • Think

• If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Character
  • You
  • Weird

• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Chaos
  • Step
  • Boredom

• I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Live
  • Society
  • Prosperity

• Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Passion
  • Sports
  • Routine

• You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Loving

• The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Creative
  • Building
  • Aim

• I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Career
  • Working
  • Lucky

• At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not only economics, but for ethics, geometry, and optics, as well. This bizarre claim turned a serious scholar and profound thinker into a comical cult figure, a sort of Euro Kim Il Sung.

  

  Tom G. Palmer
  • Serious
  • Profound
  • Ethics

• My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Process
  • Choice

• Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling.

  

  Daryl Gregory
  • Process
  • Every
  • Appalling