David Brin Quotes

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

David Brin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 6, 1950

Topics

ScienceBestTrainingBetterDoubt

In Detroit, the quarterbacks lift with all the linebackers and running backs and everybody else, so I'm doing that whole thing.

Matthew Stafford

DoingLiftDetroitWholeEverybody

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

Stephen King

CultureSmartPeopleGunThink

If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.

Roy Moore

GodManGovernmentYouRightsTake

I am such a vacation girl. I have little places that I go to frequently! If I am not too busy on a weekend, I try to go someplace like Mexico or Manzanillo or something like that.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

GirlVacationI AmBusyWeekendGo

You have to put your own personality into your home. Do what you feel is you!

Douglas Wilson

HomePersonalityFeelYouOwnYour

Actors sometimes immerse themselves into it so deeply that the line between who they are and their character can become blurred. For me, I think it's just about getting clearer on my whole life and who I am in order to make it possible for me to play whatever character is presented to me at a particular time.

Christian Slater

LifeCharacterTimeI AmMeThink

Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, there's a lot of eye-rolling... it just breeds inertia. If a director is in control, the crew follow their leader. But the second anyone senses the directors are not sure, people just swoop in.

Christine Vachon

LeaderPeopleControlLostFollow

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

William Howard Taft

LawActionBecomeResponsibleWithin

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

Swoosie Kurtz

Los AngelesUnderstandNeverFirst

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

Susan Sontag

FutureEqualityThinkAmericanWhite

Make the videos that you want to watch. Don't think about who is going to be upset or offended.

Shane Dawson

ThinkYouWantUpsetOffendedGoing

My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'

Ryan Lochte

TimeSchoolCollegeMeChampionYou

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