Alastair Reynolds Quotes

One of the dangers of science fiction, particularly bad science fiction, is that you have these scenes where the characters turn to a blackboard and start explaining how this faster-than-light drive works, or something like that. We never really have those conversations in real life. That's not part of the way we interact as human beings.

Alastair Reynolds

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeScienceDriveStartYouBad

I don't really worry what outside groups who score votes think. My job is to represent the people.

Ander Crenshaw

JobPeopleThinkWorryOutsideWho

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

Meg Rosoff

FamilyWorldYouKnowMessOut

If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for the public to trust you.

John Hickenlooper

TrustMediaYouHardGoingPublic

I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.

Michael Apted

DoingNeverSeeBeenInterested

I hate everything about writing except doing it.

Tony Harrison

HateWritingDoingEverythingExcept

Having fewer unhealthy days and, in turn, more days when you have the energy to get things done is probably the global constant through which businesses and individuals can think about the quantifiable upside of increasing wellbeing.

Tom Rath

EnergyThinkYouDoneMoreTurn

There is a real problem in terms of the refugee flow, the ability of ISIS to infiltrate those refugee flows, our inability to track them.

Ron Johnson

ProblemFlowRealAbilityRefugee

But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.

Midge Ure

GuitarFirstFavoriteInstrument

Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

LifeQuotationItself

I don't believe any particular ethnic group is smarter than any other group.

David Steinberg

BelieveGroupEthnicSmarterThan

Growth without diversification, technological improvement, and increased productivity is easily reversed: all it takes is a dip in commodity prices.

Arancha Gonzalez

GrowthImprovementWithoutDipTakes

The advice I give young people is that you have to pursue something, and you have to have fun along the way.

Peggy Whitson

FunPeopleHave FunAdviceYouWay

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