Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ursula K. Le Guin

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

Octavia Butler

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

Rachel Nichols

One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.

Lynn Abbey

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

David Shields

Genre is a minimum security prison,

Dean Koontz

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Bruce Willis

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

Brion James

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

Conor McPherson

I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings.

Asif Ali Zardari

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

Robert D. Hare

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

Ryan Ross

The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

Roberto Bolano

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

Felix Kulov

In many prisons the staff have returned to work,

Friedrich Durrenmatt

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

Epictetus

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

Nelson Mandela

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

Marian Wright Edelman

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

Kevin Knox

We're going to see 4.6GB be a minimum for around six months or so. Then we'll move quickly to 6.4GB.

Mayor Iwuc

Better than the minimum qualifications outlined in the charter. Not only do I want the best-qualified chief, I want the best.

Aaron Rodgers

There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.