M. John Harrison Quotes

World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.

M. John Harrison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 26, 1945

Topics

GreatPlaceDoneAbilityEverything

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

Jesse Jackson

YouLoseRunMightGuaranteed

I was thinking, 'If I go bald, I might do something like Bret Michaels and have it all attached to a handkerchief.'

Jennifer Coolidge

ThinkingGoBaldSomethingLike

Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.

John Malkovich

YouMatterSeeMostThemFilms

A good song is a good song whatever your age.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

GoodAgeSongWhateverGood Song

The grass is a very big challenge for me. There are these low bounces and different movements, which is very difficult, especially for my height and weight. When the surfaces change, and I start to play on grass, I start to feel it in the lower back and the lower hamstring.

Tomas Berdych

ChangeChallengeMeStartFeelPlay

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

Roseanne Barr

WomenTimeMyselfThinkI CanMonth

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

Louis L'Amour

EducationLibraryReachWayOffice

My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type of person. You don't know any better, and you don't know how you'd like to be treated.

Lisa Snowdon

LifeParentsThinkBetterYouWrong

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

William Wordsworth

FlowerGardeningShySweetestSmells

There's so much control of the audience's experience when you're on stage doing a play, whereas when working on camera, there's a lot of people that have to do a lot of things exactly right for anything that I do to matter at all.

William Jackson Harper

ExperiencePeopleControlDoingYou

A 'Guardians' sequel and a 'Gilmore Girls' reboot right at the same time was really awesome.

Sean Gunn

TimeRightSameAwesomeReally

That's what PGA Tour golf is all about. It's a partnership with the community to help people to raise money for charity and to do it using golf as a platform.

Tim Finchem

CommunityMoneyPeopleCharityHelp

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