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Daniel H. Wilson Quotes

Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

Daniel H. Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: March 6, 1978

Topics

Science Space Expectations Better Go

You can't back-engineer a brand.

Joanna Coles

Brand You

Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.

Joan Didion

Grief Me Interesting Nothing Sanity

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

Matthew Vaughn

People You Need Respond Cliches

A reviewer's lot is not always an easy one. I can remember flogging myself to finish Harold Brodkey's 'The Runaway Soul' despite the novel's consummate, unmitigated tedium.

Michael Dirda

Myself Soul Remember Easy I Can

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

Trent Reznor

Thought Despair Bottom Floors Few

I came from a long line of football players.

Matt Bomer

Football Long Line Players I Came

This is a global economy. If you're not at the bargaining table, if you don't get an agreement, someone else does.

Mike Quigley

Someone You Table Economy Agreement

At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many people are drawn to sensational memoirs for the same reason they watch 'The Apprentice': they like to witness actual suffering, before-your-very-eyes humiliation.

Julia Glass

Fear Truth Best Compassion Ugly

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

Joyce Maynard

Love Women Age Experience Man Up

For most of the competitors, winning the Dakar has little to do with the standings on the final day and everything to do with making it to the final day.

Jonathan Miles

Day Winning Everything Little Final

VR is so immersive, and when it works, it draws you into the story in a way that is truly unique and powerful.

Doug Liman

Story You Powerful Unique Way VR

A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has.

Dean Bakopoulos

Good Same Writer Needs TV Tricks