Jerry Pournelle Quotes

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.

Jerry Pournelle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ScienceThinkDeadScience Fiction

I'm from Indiana. I know what you're thinking, Indiana... Mafia. But in Indiana it's not like New York where everyone's like, 'We're from New York and we're the best' or 'We're from Texas and we like things big' it's more like 'We're from Indiana and we're gonna move.'

Jim Gaffigan

BestNew YorkTexasThinkingYou

There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.

Jill Scott

SuccessMarriageThinkLossEven

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

Joey Ramone

NowSoundUsJustFoundationsTakes

You've got to really check on what you're doing: check and recheck it seven other times to be prepared. Sometimes, people get carried away with the artistic-ness of the endeavor and don't quite have their game face on when the time comes. It's always a pretty costly mistake.

Melvin Van Peebles

TimeMistakePeopleGameFaceDoing

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.

Merton Miller

WritingEconomicsDecisionsCompany

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

Amy Sedaris

GreatNewJazzNew OrleansArts

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

Amy Sedaris

IdeasFreeFeelOpenEverythingGet

I don't live as 'Stone Cold.' I live as Steve Austin. I was 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin back in 2003, then I rode off into the sunset.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

LiveSunsetColdStoneBackOff

I never go out during the day without sunglasses.

Tory Burch

DaySunglassesGoNeverWithoutOut

As a jobbing actor, you can't afford to be choosy; if you're typed, you're generally working. I still feel that way, and the thing is, even within the horror genre, I now get to play all kinds of different roles.

Robert Englund

FeelYouPlayNowActorWay

Why is it braver to be a single mother versus being with a partner? Being in a couple and having a child could be more challenging because there might be conflict if the male partner cannot understand the extreme attachment a woman feels when she has a child.

Monica Cruz

MotherWomanChildConflictPartner

My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.

Lloyd Dorfman

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