Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes

When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.

Kim Stanley Robinson

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• Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Liberty

• My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • Secret

• During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Essence
  • Ingratitude

• A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

  

  Fawn M. Brodie
  • Power
  • Passion
  • Politics

• There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up – the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • World
  • Science
  • Me

• Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

  

  Karl Rove
  • World
  • Business
  • American

• The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Battle
  • Fought
  • Grandest

• All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Way
  • Being

• It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • America
  • Always
  • Ride

• I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • American
  • Just

• I've always felt writing is an art. Publishing is a business. I felt strongly if I was going to write, I would write what I wanted to, and if the 'market' didn't respond, there was nothing I could really do about it.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Business

• In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Dangerous
  • Act
  • Used

• When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Men
  • Art
  • Woman

• Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Honest
  • Will
  • Passionate

• I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Love
  • Action
  • Like

• The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Wise
  • Fools
  • Repeat

• The beer was empty and our tongues were tiredAnd running out of things to say.She gave a kiss to me as I got outAnd I watched her drive away.Just for a moment I was back at schoolAnd felt that old familiar painAnd as I turned to make my way back homeThe snow turned into rain.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • She
  • Running
  • Rain

• Dreams should make you think, ‘If I had the guts to do it and I didn’t care what anybody thought, this I what I’d really do’.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Dream
  • Should
  • Ifs

• All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Animals
  • Exists

• Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Equal
  • Tenderness
  • Portion

• Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.

  

  Noah Webster
  • Discipline
  • Youth
  • Duties

• When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson