Dan Simmons Quotes

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

Dan Simmons

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 4, 1948

Topics

ArtTrustBestEffortMeBond

It's a fine line we walk on 'Warehouse 13.' We really earn our dramatic moments, but our tongues are always firmly in our cheeks. If we take ourselves too seriously, we get into trouble.

Joanne Kelly

WalkMomentsTroubleSeriouslyLine

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

Joe Elliott

ArchitectureBetterBuildingsLook

We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy.

Joel Kinnaman

OldNobilityBritishAristocracy

Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don't have one.

John McEnroe

PeopleThreeMoreTwoStillMost

You go to a contest, and it's like, 'OK, I'm here for two weeks. All my energy, time, thinking, and everything is going toward that.' Everything you're doing is building toward the score at the end.

John John Florence

TimeBuildingEnergyThinkingEnd

Even though you think boxing is a contact sport, it teaches you not to fight on the street, to behave. It gives you discipline and self-control.

Amir Khan

DisciplineFightThinkYouStreet

History has shown that time and market forces provide equilibrium in balancing interests, whether the new technology is a video recorder, a personal computer, an MP3 player, or now the Net.

Steve Blank

TechnologyHistoryTimeNewPersonal

You can't do everything, at the same time, always, and forever. But if you look at your life and your career as a long, winding river, you can get to your destination.

Stacey Snider

LifeTimeRiverDestinationLook

I was told my style was supposed to give me a short career.

Rob Van Dam

StyleMeShortCareerGive MeGive

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

Ritchie Blackmore

MiserableCelloMelancholyInstrument

I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they're on to the next piece of meat, and they don't necessarily like to follow the twists and turns of an artistic career.

Rufus Wainwright

Ups And DownsAmericaYouCareer

We just did the best we could with quite a limited budget, to be honest, and had a lot of success.

Rupert Sanders

SuccessBestBudgetHonestJustDid

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