Alastair Reynolds Quotes

'I don’t trust you.''Of course you don’t. I know I wouldn’t. And I’m not asking you to. I’m not putting you in a situation in which your trust of me is even remotely relevant. I’m just pointing a gun to your head and giving you orders.'

Alastair Reynolds

• Giving
• Trust
• Gun

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• People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Model

• Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Path
  • Genius
  • Beaten Path

• That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Today
  • Television
  • News

• In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Up
  • Man
  • Feel

• Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Lies
  • Compassion
  • Top

• Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Work
  • Book
  • Chef

• My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Life
  • Good
  • Believe

• I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Daily
  • Week
  • Pressure

• We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Character
  • Book
  • Best

• Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • School
  • Girl
  • Name

• Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Great
  • Help
  • Death

• I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Career
  • Education
  • First

• I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.

  

  Nasim Pedrad
  • Life
  • My Life
  • I Can

• Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Adversity
  • Himself

• Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Dumb
  • Noble
  • Desk

• I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Good
  • Long
  • Women

• I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Work
  • Day
  • Gay

• I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Respect
  • Government
  • Fact

• People feel politics isn't about their lives.

  

  David Miliband
  • People

• The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

  

  Lynda Barry
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• I'll go for the knockout, and if we have to go 12 rounds, then I'll trust the judges to do their best work, and I will get the victory if I deserve it.

  

  Liam Smith
  • Work
  • Trust
  • Victory

• 'I don’t trust you.''Of course you don’t. I know I wouldn’t. And I’m not asking you to. I’m not putting you in a situation in which your trust of me is even remotely relevant. I’m just pointing a gun to your head and giving you orders.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Giving
  • Trust
  • Gun