David Brin Quotes

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.

David Brin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleRulesTryEventsFollowEven

I think the job of art and drama is to hold a mirror up to those things and say, 'What do you think about it?'

Jessie Mueller

MirrorArtJobThinkYouDrama

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.

John Desmond Bernal

WorldJudgeIndependentBecomeWell

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

John Fahey

OpeningUpCompositionUnconscious

When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life - married to a husband, with kids - it's an identity.

Andrew Solomon

LifeMotherLiveWisdomRelationship

It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

Andreja Pejic

ThingsJustLikeHappensSome

Repentance is accepted remorse.

Sophie Swetchine

RepentanceRemorseAccepted

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'

Stewart Udall

FamilyGodPeaceDeathStoryYou

It is about the American people. When something is not ready, it is not working, it is not right, then we owe it to them to do the right thing and say, 'Let's hold.'

Tom Graves

Do The Right ThingPeopleAmerican

I don't want to be remembered, because I'm not planning on going. I'm staying!

Roger Moore

PlanningWantRememberedGoing

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

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe.

Mary-Kate Olsen

LoveDayCookingSchoolRestaurant

Millennials, minorities, women - until we can connect with those populations, we're going to have some difficulty electorally.

Mitt Romney

WomenMillennialsConnectGoingSome

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by David Brin