Anne McCaffrey Quotes

I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

Anne McCaffrey

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• The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Know
  • Community
  • Day

• What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Love
  • Space
  • Media

• It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Joy
  • Pleasure
  • Confused

• I don't believe in post-racial or post-gay or post-anything, but I do think within a certain group of friends, what matters less is the specificities of race and sexuality, and what matters more is the shared experience, shared language and shared cultural touch points.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Friends

• Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Chinese
  • Writer
  • Soviet

• It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Words
  • Said
  • Follow

• We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Family
  • Think
  • Mirror

• I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Men
  • History

• On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Great
  • Heart
  • House

• We need to work tirelessly to help create new jobs and good jobs here in Florida.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Good
  • Work
  • Help

• My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Friends
  • Ignore
  • Upset

• But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Knowledge
  • Change

• A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Free
  • Fact
  • Momentum

• I don't care what those schmucks think. I'm a millionaire.

  

  Uri Geller

• I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Broken

• Remember only this of our hopeless loveThat never till Time is doneWill the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• 'You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?' Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. 'Well, a little does no harm.'

  

  Iain Banks
  • Music

• The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.

  

  Edward Gibbon

• It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

  

  Philip Sidney
  • Great

• Absolutely, there is a connection between food and love. I always say, when there's love in my heart or I'm feeling particularly good, the food comes out that much better. And so I think Valentine's Day is a special day.

  

  Todd English
  • Heart
  • Feelings
  • Special

• When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile.

  

  Lina Wertmuller
  • Reading

• The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

  

  Jose Saramago
  • World

• Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem to suffice. I mean, they are not mutually exclusive. One continues to write anyway but if you are called out to demonstrate, if people are being killed in the streets, it's hardly the moment to go for your pen and paper, you know, help in one way or the other.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • People
  • Writing
  • Age

• I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

  

  Anne McCaffrey