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 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
  • Moving
  • Style
  • 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

• 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

• Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great
  • Action
  • Religion

• One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Live
  • Audience
  • Again

• we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Culture
  • Hurt
  • Language

• I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Age

• Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Spirit
  • Grace

• Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite.

  

  Bernard Bolzano
  • Possibility
  • Exist
  • Claim

• I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Different
  • Decision
  • Thought

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

  

  Daryl Gregory
  • Process
  • Every
  • Appalling