Connie Willis Quotes
There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I’d like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O’Reilly’s macaques, which have to have more sense.
Quotes to Explore
-
Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
-
I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
-
I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
-
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
-
I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
-
I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
-
We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
-
I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
-
I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
-
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
-
In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
-
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
-
Everybody grows but me.
-
What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
-
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
-
My style has evolved in a nice way, but everyone has bad moments.
-
I'm very serious about acting.
-
I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it's very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It's kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.
-
'Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?''
-
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the very first time.
-
As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
-
There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I’d like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O’Reilly’s macaques, which have to have more sense.
