Brian Stableford Quotes

Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike our own in order to investigate, by way of pleasurable thought-experiments, how things might be done differently.

Brian Stableford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 25, 1948

Topics

LiveSciencePeopleWorldLearnWay

One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.

Joe Pantoliano

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I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.

Jesse Ventura

ExperienceSpeakTortureBeen

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

Robert Kiyosaki

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You've got to live life to write a book about it.

Andy Williams

LifeLiveLive LifeBookYouWrite

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

Tracey Ullman

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In 'The World Set Free,' the world's major superpowers attack each other simultaneously.

Tom Reiss

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When I look in the mirror, I see the ageing process at full pelt, the hairline in retreat, the bags under the eyes growing and darkening, that kind of thing. I suppose it would be easier if I weren't an actor, but I am fairly philosophical about it.

Robert Webb

EyesMirrorI AmProcessLookKind

Looking back over the years, I realize the Bible isn't magic, but it is corrective; it isn't an answer book, it is a living book; it isn't a fix-it book, it is relationship book. When I confront God's word, I am confronted; when I read God's word, it reads me; when I seek God's presence, He seeks me.

Mike Yaconelli

GodRelationshipI AmLooking Back

Places change all the time, and the type of people who live there change.

Martin Parr

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The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

NatureManPlaceEarthFirst

I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what's going on inside of us.

Susumu Tonegawa

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In my peaceful moments, I yearn to write a bank heist like the one in 'Heat.'

Peter Morgan

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