Charles Stross Quotes

I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.

Charles Stross

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: October 18, 1964

Topics

BrokenDoingEnoughInsideTwoGet

My endorsement of Senator Obama will not be welcome news to my friends and family at the Clinton campaign.

Joe Andrew

FamilyWelcomeFriends And Family

The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.

Johannes Stark

MovementLinesMayPrincipleBasis

In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.

John Dobbin

GoodEyesBrainRealityLaziness

I'm glad nobody has asked me to adapt 'Wuthering Heights' because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess of it. I think the Bronte Sisters are mad.

Andrew Davies

MeThinkMadNobodyHeightsAdapt

What's so fun about doing the same thing again and again? You can only slap the handcuffs on a guy so many times.

Andre Braugher

FunDoingYouSameGuyAgain

I can't even walk out the door without, even to go to the race track, without my MAC lip gloss.

Angela Cope

WalkDoorGoRaceWithoutOut

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.

Angelina Jolie

GoodStartGrowLearnActorBecause

Why shouldn't I be confident? I'm well educated, I can deliver a line, and I have more than three expressions. That's good right?

Sonakshi Sinha

GoodConfidentI CanThreeWhyLine

I'm not a trained academic. Neither am I a veteran social worker. I was 26 years in the corporate world, trying to make organizations profitable. And then in 2003 I started Parikrma Humanity Foundation from my kitchen table.

Shukla Bose

WorldKitchenFoundationHumanity

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Tony Blair

BelieveI BelieveRightMrsEmphasis

I was expected to run the same as Roberto Carlos or Cafu, but I just couldn't do it.

Ronaldo

RunSameJustExpectedRoberto

What happened with reggaeton is that many artists kept recycling the same sound. But there are a lot of reggaeton artists that are still in their prime - like Daddy Yankee - because they've chosen to continue growing, to offer people more than just reggaeton. That's where I learned to always be able to try something new and not be afraid.

Romeo Santos

PeopleNewGrowingTryMoreSound

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