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Thomas Mallon Quotes

Stars, of course, are too hot to support life, so wherever life might exist in the universe, it has to be on planets or moons that are warmed, but not incinerated, by the stars they travel around.

Thomas Mallon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 2, 1951

Topics

Life Stars Travel Support Universe

Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't able to do it because of the time element.

Joe Shuster

Time Early Anatomy Because Able

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.

Robert Plant

Music Character Light Me Wrong More

Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it.

John Hillcoat

Think Violence Dramatic Seen I Think

A steak is a steak, so I tried to experiment with different side dishes, such as truffle croquettes, and unusual condiments, but I learned that people don't want you to change the steakhouse.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Change People You Want Steak Side

Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.

Michael Franti

Justice People Rebel Labor Trapped

There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Writing More Hidden Cancer Big Idea

I've had to accept that - that everyone cannot love me. Because when there's love, there's hate. When there's light, there's dark. But it was really hard to accept as an artist that there's a lot of people that hate me, but on the other side, there are many more people who love me. I think everyone goes through that.

Love Light Hate People Me Think

I want to stand on a platform in the middle of Times Square and shout, 'You do not have to battle your Crohn's disease alone.'

Mary Ann Mobley

Alone Stand Battle You Want Middle

I started buying bits of broken porcelain. I furnished our first flat with pieces of 'junk.' Some of that 'junk' is now worth an awful lot of money. What I was calling 'junk' in the '60s people wouldn't call 'junk' now.

Judith Miller

Money Broken People Worth Now First

I've always been a fan of Korean cinema but never really pursued it, as I wanted to pave my way here in the States. I figured, once I established myself here, Korea might take notice. And it did.

Brian Tee

Myself Cinema Way Never Always Here

You can't put off being young until you retire.

Philip Larkin

You Young Retire Being Off Until

I knew something was wrong; I was constantly tired, and I'd developed numbness on my left side. I'd also become paranoid that my boyfriend was cheating on me. I thought I was having a nervous breakdown. One psychiatrist told me I was bipolar.

Susannah Cahalan

Tired Me Thought Cheating Wrong