Harlan Ellison Quotes
All writers in some insane place believe that to write is a holy chore - that what one wishes to do is speak to one’s time, to make a difference, to say: 'I was here. I was a force for good in some way.'
Harlan Ellison
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
Ramez Naam
I know every politician spins the truth a little.
Zach Braff
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson
I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
Gaby Hoffmann
I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
Patrick J. Adams
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
Mahmoud Darwish
I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
Victor Cruz
For economist the real world is often a special case.
Edgar Fiedler
We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
Xavier Becerra
I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.
Owain Yeoman
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
Lance Reddick
I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
Paris Hilton
Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
Ursula Burns
Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.
Maya Angelou
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
Mahmoud Abbas
All writers in some insane place believe that to write is a holy chore - that what one wishes to do is speak to one’s time, to make a difference, to say: 'I was here. I was a force for good in some way.'
Harlan Ellison
