Alastair Reynolds Quotes
'You can hardly blame them.''Assuming stupidity is an inherited trait, then no, I can’t.'Alastair Reynolds
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
M. H. Abrams -
The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
Patricia Birch -
Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
Malin Akerman -
I still have nightmares about taking tests.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
Sam Barry -
I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
O. J. Simpson
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I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
Being a typical Briton, I love my home comforts and always try and find an English pub where I can tuck into some traditional English food, accompanied by a nice pint. Fortunately, I haven't been ill with food poisoning or anything like that, which is quite surprising considering how many different types of food I eat when I'm travelling.
Olly Murs -
Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
Kat Edmonson -
Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.
Adam Driver -
The rites were just the husks left over from deeper things, no pith remaining and no mystery, nothing to lift up the soul or go to the brain like wine. And, as generally happens, the more truth the ritual lost the more they bolstered it with significance. There is a saying among the Moi: The chief is clad in gold and purple, only the god dares to go naked.
Tanith Lee
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It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger.
Xi Jinping -
There is a smallest unit of space. Its minimum value is given by the cube of the Planck length... If you take a volume of space and measure it to a very fine precision... It has to fall into some discrete series of numbers, just like the energy of an electron in an atom. ...we can calculate the discrete areas and volumes from the theory.
Lee Smolin -
I am my world. (The microcosm.) (5.63)
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
They just don’t trust people. They don’t trust individuals, they don’t trust any change that should serve and benefit people, and they try to stop it.
Ai Weiwei -
While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.
Jerry Costello -
What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
David Eagleman
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Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.
Flannery O'Connor -
The best part of getting to do what you like is just doing it. That doesn't have to do with being famous or even successful or even powerful. I see people in life who are just doing a job and seem to be having a good time. And that's the trick.
Lauren Graham -
Live, and be happy, and make others so.
Mary Shelley -
'You can hardly blame them.''Assuming stupidity is an inherited trait, then no, I can’t.'
Alastair Reynolds