David Brin Quotes

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

David Brin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HistoryHabitMistakeAssumptions

When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.

Jello Biafra

LifePeopleTryingYouNervousOut

My cosmetic range, easy4Men, is not going that well. It's meant to be for the no-nonsense man, but now I don't know if the no-nonsense man exists.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

ManMeant To BeKnowNowGoingWell

When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I always write with a co-writer.

Sia

SongFeelWriteSongwritingAlways

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

Tom Stoppard

LifeLiveTruthEyeBlurYou

Back in the early '70s, when Susie and I were first married, we had a little house that we rented, and we used to have parties. People would come, and they wouldn't leave. I used to get so tired. I'd put on the Stanley Brothers, 'Songs for the Good People,' and the house would clear in five minutes. It was not liked; it was alien. It was weird.

Ry Cooder

GoodTiredPeopleWeirdGood People

You've got to empathize with every character you play.

Ross Lynch

CharacterYouPlayGotEvery

Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky.

Lizz Winstead

LifeMeOpportunitiesPresentLucky

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

Juan Goytisolo

ArchitectureSituationNowPlastic

People naturally want to know about what happened, about my leukemia. They ask the same questions again and again. And there have been so many positive conclusions, even through the bad times, that I don't mind at all to be reminded of my struggles.

Jose Carreras

PositivePeopleMindQuestionsBad

ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.

Drew Curtis

SportsImpossibleProblemProgramming

The more you live, the better an actor you are, but maybe I'd like to do something else on the side. Something to pay the bills as well.

Clemence Poesy

LiveBetterYouActorMorePay

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Bruce Lee

LifeLoveTimeYouLove LifeUp

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