Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by the general public as being literature of prediction, and it isn't.

Robert J. Sawyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: April 29, 1960

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I didn't go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.

Jim Lovell

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We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.

Johannes Stark

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We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

Ann Coulter

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The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad.

Topher Grace

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Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

Tony Abbott

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We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

Michael Strahan

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I was in good control of my body, and I kept my head still.

Dennis Eckersley

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I mean, I have a daughter, and it's a very bad message to send to my daughter that to be valid or accepted or to have value, you have to look a certain way. It's all about appearance, and not about education and not about contributing. I think we've completely lost our way.

Christopher Cross

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You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

Bryan Cranston

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I like the paranormal side a lot; that's my favorite kind of horror movie because it plays on your fear of the dark and makes you go home, and you can't sleep at night.

Shanley Caswell

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Philanthropic funding can play a vital role in testing and stimulating innovation that, when proven, can be implemented at scale by business or government.

Sergio Ermotti

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The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.

Rick Warren

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