Alastair Reynolds Quotes

'I’ll survive,' Floyd said. 'I’m a private detective. If I don’t get clouted on the head at least once a week, I’m not doing my job properly.'

Alastair Reynolds

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• To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

  

  Tacitus
  • May
  • Show
  • Resentment

• I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Life
  • World
  • Puzzle

• You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Guy
  • Want

• Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Smart
  • Win
  • President

• I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.

  

  Halsey
  • Good
  • Very
  • Singer

• I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Me
  • Never
  • Guess

• I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Job
  • Myself
  • Never

• I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Hip Hop
  • Chris
  • Martin

• The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Beauty
  • Photography
  • Patience

• Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • True
  • Land
  • Israel

• Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

  

  Ram Dass
  • God
  • Inspiration
  • Contact

• No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • War
  • Inevitable
  • Breaks

• I grew up in New York.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Freedom

• Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'

  

  A.J. Styles
  • May
  • Guy
  • Think

• I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Sound
  • Drunk
  • Tongue

• I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

  

  Ira Levin
  • Back
  • Royalty
  • Send

• Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Reading

• Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Women
  • Best
  • Step

• I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Worry
  • Thought
  • Step

• I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Life
  • Singing

• I was close with some of my old professors.

  

  Jon Tenney

• Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Work

• 'I’ll survive,' Floyd said. 'I’m a private detective. If I don’t get clouted on the head at least once a week, I’m not doing my job properly.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Job