Marie Lu Quotes

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

Marie Lu

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• When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Science
  • Myself
  • Mistake

• I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Mind
  • Child
  • Passionate

• Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • May
  • Book
  • Science

• The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Brain
  • Direction
  • Ordinary

• Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Looking

• So I decided on science when I was in college.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Science
  • College
  • Decided

• I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Children
  • She
  • Science

• Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Brain

• Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Guy

• When I first got to Cannes, I was very insecure about everything, so I put on this extravagant facade. Can you blame me? I was 19.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Me
  • Blame
  • Insecure

• We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Loved

• I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Science
  • Interesting

• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Art
  • Science

• Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Different
  • Hand
  • Brain

• Learn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • World
  • Business
  • Science

• I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Think
  • Brain
  • Memory

• Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Science

• You want to be excited about what you're doing. So whenever I get tired, I think, 'Would ten-year-old Adam be pretty stoked on what I'm doing and what's happening?' So I just live my life as if I'm using my ten-year-old brain.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
  • Live
  • Pretty

• If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as we discussed earlier, we don't have a great definition or even a good technological handle to know whether something is conscious or not just by looking at it, so there's that aspect that we're not ready to answer, I would argue. But it raises very interesting questions about the nature of identity.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Good
  • Great
  • Nature

• But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music.

  

  Lee Ann Womack
  • People
  • Music

• Now if there's a smile on my face,It's only there tryin' to fool the public,But when it comes down to foolin' you;Now honey, that's quite a different subject.But don't let my glad expressionGive you the wrong impression.Really I'm sad.I'm sadder than sad.You're gone and I'm hurtin' so bad.Like a clown I pretend to be glad.

  

  Smokey Robinson
  • Different
  • Bad
  • Sad

• A blessed life is one that understands that when God saves you, He has others in mind. I believe every Christian needs to know that they are not only saved, but are also called to live a life of purpose.

  

  Brian Houston
  • Life
  • God
  • Christian

• Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

  

  Marie Lu
  • Science
  • Brain