Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.
Charles Stross
Recitation: by Male by Female
The airplane has had a big impact on my life.
Jim Courier
LifeAirplaneImpactMy LifeBig
When I came into the mobile phone business, I was really the upstart who pretty much took the business, not quite by storm, but really made an impact on it quite early on. But it was from a position, really, of feeling that I was a last mover.
John Caudwell
BusinessStormImpactEarlyPhone
My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it.
May-Britt Moser
LoveGoodCoffeeSleepNightStop
Storytelling has a narcotic power.
Robert Harris
PowerStorytellingNarcotic
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
John Updike
LifeHomeHellAmericanDrivingYou
The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.
Martin Rees
SpaceLegacyEarthBecomeLeftMay
Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.
Janine Benyus
LifeNatureGreenBookEasyTable
Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.
Joseph Brodsky
GoodStyleSpeedAlwaysPrecision
I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.
Don McLean
I AmSingingWantWhyWillUp
I've always said, 'If you need Viagra, you're probably with the wrong girl.'
Donald Trump
GirlYouWrongSaidNeedAlways
Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.
Bob Uecker
BaseballProudThinkBoyKidThings
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
Annie Dillard
TimeWritingDieYouPersonSay
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