Alastair Reynolds Quotes
Volyova did not like planets at the best of times, and gas giants struck her as an unreasonable affront to human scale and frailty. In that respect, they were almost as bad as stars.Alastair Reynolds
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
Ogden Nash -
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.
Xenophon -
I don't know how people recognize me.
Laura Prepon -
I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
Patrick Rothfuss -
My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
Jack Black
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I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
Aaron Rodgers -
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
Patrick Stewart -
I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
Kate Winslet -
My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
Fay Wray -
I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
Fran Lebowitz -
There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
Magnus Scheving -
I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
Zubin Mehta -
I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.
Saffron Burrows -
Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.
Kate Middleton -
I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
Edmund White
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Want to be a well-paid bioethicist, with one, two, or even three university appointments? Just get yourself a two-piece navy polyester suit and follow these three simple rules: (1) Never name names. (2) Screw principles; just follow procedures. (3) Bury the money.
Alice Dreger -
The soaps are great training. You can form good habits - or you can form bad habits. You have to set your goals. If you're not clear on what you want, you can slip into bad habits. It can become a comfortable place, and you don't grow.
Mary Page Keller -
I want my wife and children to travel always with me and share good things and bad things. That's what the family is for.
Marcello Giordani -
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
H. L. Mencken -
Mainstream news covers war and gets everything wrong. I'd rather learn what's happening from soldiers with combat experience. It's like a former NFL player giving play-by-play. We bring the expert commentary.
Brandon Webb -
Volyova did not like planets at the best of times, and gas giants struck her as an unreasonable affront to human scale and frailty. In that respect, they were almost as bad as stars.
Alastair Reynolds