Alastair Reynolds Quotes

'Is he dangerous?'Anyone who lies for a living is dangerous.'

Alastair Reynolds

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• It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Happy

• So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Different
  • Look

• I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Decisions
  • Comfortable
  • Closet

• The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Think
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Why
  • Free

• We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Remember
  • Revolution
  • Right

• I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Mother
  • Say
  • Angels

• I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Work
  • Cool
  • Timeline

• I am a very selfish person.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Person
  • Selfish

• If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Film
  • Gun
  • Choose

• Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Want
  • Words
  • You

• One must act in painting as in life, directly.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Act

• Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Trouble
  • Big
  • Getting

• War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • War
  • Peace

• Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Strong
  • Fighting
  • Opinion

• The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Important
  • Money
  • Man

• If you want to get along, go along.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Want
  • You
  • Go

• There's one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But! There's a flip side to that, which is that anything I want you to do, give it a try also.

  

  Derek Cianfrance

• Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.

  

  Howard Jacobson
  • Sex

• In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Die
  • Fire

• Being a Christian means that I am called upon to do battle against lies, injustice, cruelty, hypocrisy - you know, all the virtues in the church of liberalism.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Lies

• It was always important to me to make sure Pooh came across as much more than a bear of very little brain. There is an innate wisdom there somewhere.

  

  Jim Broadbent
  • Important
  • Wisdom
  • Brain

• 'Is he dangerous?'Anyone who lies for a living is dangerous.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Lies