Jerry Pournelle Quotes

You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.

Jerry Pournelle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 7, 1933 - September 8, 2017

Topics

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I don't think the trial practice is dead. But it is very ill. There are some days you could throw a hand grenade down the hall of the Harris County Courthouse and not hit anybody.

Joe Jamail

PracticeThinkYouDownHandDead

Eight is my lucky number.

Jesse Spencer

LuckyNumberEight

We have been dealt a very weak hand by the financial market meltdown, bailouts, and recession. We can't act like it's a strong one.

John Delaney

StrongFinancialHandWeakActBeen

As an older lineman, if you start to sit around, you get stiff. You get tired. Things start to set in.

Andrew Whitworth

TiredStartYouThingsSitGet

Culture makes all men gentle.

Menander

CultureMenGentleMakes

I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.

Jeb Bush

LifeTimeFocusChanceThoughtYear

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

Jeff Bridges

MyselfMoviesOldWatchingUsed

Hollywood is kind of a bad world.

Mia Maestro

WorldBadKindHollywood

I don't write to create performance material; I write to make books.

Amy Gerstler

PerformanceCreateWriteMakeBooks

Different roles call for different aspects or different faces of Sterling to emerge.

Sterling K. Brown

CallFacesDifferentDifferent Roles

It's not like I can't play football with some injuries.

Stefon Diggs

FootballInjuriesPlayPlay Football

Directing your first film is like showing up to the field trip in seventh grade, getting on the bus, and making an announcement, 'So today I'm driving the bus.' And everybody's like, 'What?' And you're like, 'I'm gonna drive the bus.' And they're like, 'But you don't know how to drive the bus.'

Mike Birbiglia

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