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Alfred Bester Quotes

I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

Alfred Bester

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 18, 1913 - September 30, 1987

Topics

Technology Science People New Means

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

America Ferrera

Life Thankful Perspective Child Know

I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.

Stacy Schiff

Change Child Library Hometown Lost

Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.

Tom Landry

Positive Character Hope Man End See

Society is now less convinced of the absolute accuracy of the criminal justice system.

Tom Price

Justice Society Now Accuracy System

I love 'Jungle Book' and all the classics growing up, but what I learned about this is that these Disney films are basically classic fables that have been told for thousands of years.

Roger Ross Williams

Love Growing Up Book Jungle Growing

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

Roger Staubach

Traffic Extra Mile Along Extra Mile

We stitch together our days and edit out our nights.

Julia Leigh

Together Out Days Our Edit Nights

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

Judith Martin

Alone Rest Need Would Attached

I've come to the conclusion that life is for the taking and just too short to dwell on the negative.

Dolores O'Riordan

Life Negative Short Dwell Conclusion

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

Colin Angle

Robots Hollywood Mechanical Imagine

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

Muhammad Ali

Beautiful I Am People Free Name Now

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.

Kyle Chandler

Marriage Age Relationship Think Got