Sam Abell Quotes
There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.
Sam Abell
Quotes to Explore
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
Paolo Bacigalupi
I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
Vikas Swarup
I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
Forest Whitaker
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
Viggo Mortensen
There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
Edgar Wright
Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
Dan Aykroyd
One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
Orhan Pamuk
I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
Nathan Myhrvold
Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
Edmund Phelps
I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
Gavin Bryars
I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
Uma Thurman
It's interesting: I went 25 years without watching a single television show. I was one of those people, because I was so inside how a television show was made, if I would turn on somebody else's show, I would sit there and analyze it, like, 'Oh, so they had four hours in this location and had to get out and the number of set-ups, etc.'
Marshall Herskovitz
