Alan Dean Foster Quotes

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

Alan Dean Foster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 18, 1946

Topics

TimeTravelMeWritingWorldWrong

Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.

Jimmy Dean

BetterYouSaidSayTryLittle

Led Zeppelin was a band that would change things around substantially each time it played... We were becoming tighter and tighter, to the point of telepathy.

Jimmy Page

ChangeTimeBandPointThingsWould

People say, 'Did you violate Heaven?' Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.

Jim Lovell

GodPeopleBelieveYouHeavenDown

It's hard in America as a writer of color, an actor of color, not to get caught up in race and culture. But you're also supposed to be able to write characters and scenes in a way where it's just a matter of fact, a component.

John Cho

CultureColorAmericaYouActorWay

It certainly should not surprise us that a young person without any real stake in a legitimate occupation or career may get into trouble more easily. Such persons readily accept the idea that they have been unjustly deprived of money, status, and opportunity.

Robert Kennedy

OpportunityMoneySurpriseCareer

There is an element in some of my work that has to do with being an outsider, feeling like not part of the dominant culture.

Amy Gerstler

WorkCultureFeelingOutsiderBeing

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

Shimon Peres

DayFinancePeopleNightDecisions

If I can stand up when I'm 80, I'll be happy to cruise around on a skateboard. If I feel like my skills are fading, I just won't do it publicly.

Tony Hawk

HappyBe HappyStand UpStandFeel

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

Tom Holt

PatienceProblemYouFindKnowOut

If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore?

Don Young

BusinessServiceTreesForestWhy

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

Chelsea Clinton

LifeWorkLiveHopeMeHelp

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

Christine Lahti

FriendBackHouseBornWayPieces

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