Alastair Reynolds Quotes
The poor didn’t have them and so the rich flaunted them, the larger and more conspicuous the better.Alastair Reynolds
Quotes to Explore
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
Karen Mills -
Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
Yvonne Strahovski -
When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.
Tamsin Greig -
'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
When I was growing up, my dad and I would go hunting and camping every weekend. Like everyone in my family, he is an amazing cook, and I've tried to learn a lot from all of them.
Zac Brown Band
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Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can't see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off.
Gail Collins -
The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.
Malala Yousafzai -
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
Harold Pinter -
If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.
Harry Browne -
I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.
Rachel McAdams -
I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
Victor Hugo
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There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came around, admitted they were wrong, and were forgiven. But the ones who actively choose hate-mongering don't ever get a pass.
Gail Collins -
For a song I was boughtNow I lie when I talkWith a careful eye on the cue card.Onto a stage I was pushed,With my sorrow well rehearsed.So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.
Jamila Woods -
Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.
Lu Yu -
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
Mary Wollstonecraft -
I was the youngest of six kids, and my brothers and sisters were kind of a lot older than me. And the one sister that was, like, in a close age range - she was five years older than me. She was my closest sister in age, and she was a loser.
Chelsea Handler
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The sharing economy is out of the bag - and it's not going to go back in.
Joe Gebbia -
My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
Gary Hume -
If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now.
Anthony Horowitz -
The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity...then you are going to be surprised.-1985
Nancy Pelosi -
It's just really important I think for fashion to be affordable, because everyone should have the opportunity to wear cute things and be happy and comfortable in what they are wearing. That's definitely how I like to shop and how I like to think about clothes and fashion.
Lea Michele -
The poor didn’t have them and so the rich flaunted them, the larger and more conspicuous the better.
Alastair Reynolds