Patrick Nielsen Hayden Quotes

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 2, 1959

Topics

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I remember how, back in the 1980s, the Scottish Flow Country became an object of bemused controversy as rich celebrities and businessmen from south of the border acquired great tracts of this vast wetland in the far north in order to plant non-native conifer plantations that attract hefty tax breaks.

John Burnside

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

John Dryden

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The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

John F. Kennedy

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Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.

Srikumar Rao

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I'm not really a runner. It does not bring me joy. The runner's high thing - I have no idea about that! I especially hate it on a treadmill.

Trisha Yearwood

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You don't make solo albums to have hits.

Ronnie Wood

YouSoloMakeHitsAlbums

I changed my mind about being a famous pop star when I realised that it meant I'd never be able to get on the Tube again.

Lisa Jewell

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I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

Joss Whedon

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I hated singing, I hated being on stage; I hated being in the Cranberries. I was constantly crying. I was going insane. I wanted to be a shopkeeper, a hairdresser, anything. I was so desperate to have a reality, friends, a regular, boring life. I missed that.

Dolores O'Riordan

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The guys that drive Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Bentley GTs, it's because they want to flaunt the fancy car and get the girls and stuff.

Dominick Cruz

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The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society.

Coretta Scott King

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