“How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught?”
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People Quotes — page 876 of 5018
“When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.”
“Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.”
“Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.”
“Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.”
“Commentating, illustrating, description giving, adjective expert, analyzing, surmising musical myth seeking people of the universe, this is yours.”
“You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.”
“I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.”
“People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?”
“I don't like it when people don't act on their words.”
“The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.”
“This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact. I had the paradigm of certain people in my head who became my characters, but I never considered these people to be from a "certain sector of society," unless we agree that we're all from certain sectors of society.”
“Such platitudes as "If you believe it, it will happen," "If you give 100%, you get 100%," "Good things happen to good people" people utter when we don't know what else to say. There's comfort in platitudes, and every so often they're accurate, but mainly they're hollow words. It's a sign of how little we're able to directly address the world around us. The language of the times reveals our avoidance.”
“We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.”
“If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.”
“When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.”
“People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.”
“When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.”
“People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?”
“DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.”