Alastair Reynolds Quotes
'Tanner, are you insane?''Very probably several kinds of insane,' I said. 'But I’m afraid it doesn’t change anything. I’m perfectly happy with my current delusional system.'
Alastair Reynolds
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson
In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
Maggie Carey
If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
Dan Pink
I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
Edith Pearlman
I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
Gary Larson
Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
Wanda Jackson
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Eddie Rickenbacker
I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out that I was right when some other guy comes in and says it. Sometimes I just tell my idea to my editor or to some other guy with maybe gray hair to share it, and then it's brilliant!
Patricia Riggen
If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're not being treated properly or that they're not being paid fairly, what you're going to have is you're going to have people doing the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired, and not a peppercorn more.
Dan Pink
In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
Tariq Ali
It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
Carlos Slim
My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. Edwards Deming
If I could I would kiss his wrists.If I had half the courage to face his pain.
Masiela Lusha
It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.
Davey Havok
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At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.
Paul Hawken
I'm a huge fan of Greta Gerwig, and working with her was also a dream come true. She was one of those directors who, when people asked me, 'Who do you wanna work with one day?' I'd say Greta Gerwig. I've always been a fan of mumblecore and her films, and so to work with her was just so much fun.
Kathryn Newton
'Tanner, are you insane?''Very probably several kinds of insane,' I said. 'But I’m afraid it doesn’t change anything. I’m perfectly happy with my current delusional system.'
Alastair Reynolds
