Alastair Reynolds Quotes

Most of the time, when I get an idea that hinges on some science 'thing,' it will have been because of something I read or encountered months or years earlier rather than in the last few days.

Alastair Reynolds

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: March 13, 1966

Topics

ScienceTimeWillYearsDaysGet

Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.

Jim Rash

PeopleYouToo MuchWillSome People

When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type, most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.

John Burroughs

ManPeopleThoughtFeelingsAgain

I thought I would be an extra one time in a movie. And I would have been happy with that.

Joey Diaz

TimeHappyThoughtExtraBeenWould

I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.

John Lydon

MirrorBestFindDressingRoom

In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can disassociate itself. Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security of every other nation around the globe.

Robert Kennedy

AttitudeTruthWorldSmallAction

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Robert M. Pirsig

CultureProtectOutsideNormsGoes

I would encourage you: be informed - knowledge is power.

Matt Bevin

KnowledgePowerKnowledge Is Power

I know there are fewer women comics, and I think there'll continue to be an inherent sexism in many industries, comedy being one, just because things do take a while to evolve. Things are changing, but it's going to take time. I accept this rather than getting angry about it.

Miranda Hart

WomenTimeAngryThinkComedyKnow

Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.

Jonah Lomu

LifeLooking BackLookingBackGo

Long before I achieved financial success and became the subject of a Hollywood film, I was a veteran, a single father, and a working person who was homeless.

Chris Gardner

SuccessFatherHomelessFinancial

When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good.

Alison Krauss

LifeNatureGoodAcceptanceYourself

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

William Gibson

GoodEvilThinkBecomeOnlyApply

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