John Sladek Quotes

Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.

John Sladek

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 15, 1937 - March 10, 2000

Topics

PovertyNothingWriteAnythingDeal

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.

John Astin

ThinkGhostI ThinkFigureAm

I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

John Breaux

WordsYouCountryProjectPorkLike

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

Maya Angelou

ExperienceI AmSpeakBlackTalking

I'm going to do 'The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.' And I have a part in 'Beige Swan.' I'm going to be the lead, but I don't dance. I just do a lot of sitting down. It's too tiring to get up and dance around. That should be coming out in 20-never.

Amy Poehler

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In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Russell Baker

LoveAgeYourselfFashionAdmission

My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond their control. They feed these children, clothe them, and teach them to read.

Mohamed ElBaradei

ChildrenControlColleaguesCareShe

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

Joyce Meyer

DayEvery DayWillReturnUsCloser

Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup, whatever it may be, is maybe the most fun couple weeks we have a year, but I love being able to control my own destiny. The work that I am able to put in ahead of time was either going to come out and I was going to be successful with it, or I was going to try and fail and learn how to succeed the next time.

Jordan Spieth

WorkLoveTimeI AmFunControl

If someone has children, the first thing they want is for them to be happy, and then become someone in life and all that. But the educational system, I mean always, not just now, creates competitive, successful people, and does not educate them to be happy. The problem is that success gives money, not happiness. The eternal problem.

Jorge Bucay

LifeSuccessHappinessChildren

The lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world a little bit.

Djimon Hounsou

CultureDiversityWorldSpeakGrow

I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe.

Brian Blessed

WorkLoveDrivingYouKnowThree

I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.

Sean Penn

HeartBookAlwaysOutLeaveBehind

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