David Brin Quotes

Liberal interventions that enable all children to shoot for their potential aren't just moral, they are pragmatic - any society that wastes talent to poverty or oppression isn't just evil: it is stupid.

David Brin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenTalentEvilStupidSociety

I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.

Anna Lee

I AmAmericaNowNeverStarBeen

I remember very vividly what it's like to be a child. The adults you liked were the ones who listened to you when you spoke and gave you time to say what you wanted to say and actually listened, and quite often reacted as a result of what you'd said.

Rolf Harris

TimeChildRememberResultYouSaid

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Mikhail Bakunin

SocietyPresentWithoutIndividual

I've always been a rebel, always curious about the world around me.

Martina Navratilova

CuriousMeWorldRebelAlwaysBeen

I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.

Mitch Albom

MoneyMoreNeverLivedWorkaholic

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

Loretta Young

StarsFaceFallTalkSheLovely

You wake up white, and you think about certain things every day. You wake up black, and you think about certain things. You wake up Chinese, and you think certain things - but those things aren't major. What's major is that you are good at your craft.

Judith Jamison

GoodDayWake UpBlackThinkYou

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Chinua Achebe

ArtManEffortRealityCreateHim

'The Moonstone' was all I could have hoped for. A mysterious, cursed jewel, wrested from India, only to be stolen later from a great British mansion. Enigmatic, dangerous priests who follow it across the ocean in hopes of wresting it back.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

GreatOceanBackIndiaDangerous

I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.

Brit Marling

ThinkBudgetPossibilitiesSometimes

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.

William Morris

PowerRightSeeDegreeI SeeLittle

In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.

Susan Hill

LifeLovedMoreWouldFarThan

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