Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Lexa Doig

I'm more into thrillers than horrors. I also have a thing for period pieces. Science fiction to me is also a period piece. It's an imagined period.

Moon Bloodgood

I love science fiction.

Mike Lee

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Octavia Butler

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

Andrea Barrett

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It's a hard way to learn to write. I don't recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.

Peggy Dillner

Students who tend to read young-adult fiction are female. Most male adolescents read nonfiction.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.

Robert Trout

The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.

Willard Van Orman Quine

If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.

Niklaus Wirth

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

Pranab Mukherjee

The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation- states, and its promotion by the UN is in clear contradiction to all that we, the Group of 77, and the UN Charter itself consider inalienable, namely national sovereignty and security.

Ken Robinson

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

Li Zhaoxing

China's diplomacy has made bold headway, serving domestic development and contributing to world peace and common development,.

Owen Chamberlain

The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.

James Lovelock

So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.

George Crumb

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

Julie Chapman

Katie could also be ready to do one or two events for us at Sectionals if we qualify.

Kenny Wallace

I always do look forward to the stand-alone events,

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television because he did all of the big events. He's the last of the dinosaurs. No one will ever be the voice of so many major events at the same time ever again.

Eamon

Recent events on the national level show that response times are critical,

Carol Potter

I like to distinguish our events from other events.

John Madden

I think all of the events today can be filed under unbelievable, I guess.

Jon Mills

I'm looking forward to next year, but there's work left to be done out here, ... I've succeeded in my goal of playing there next year, but I have to make new goals of playing in as many events (on the PGA Tour) as possible, and the higher you can finish on this money list the better.

John Hagel III

The challenge with SXSW and events like it is it's so big and overwhelming, it's easy to get lost in the crowd.

Roger Nicholson

The incident coincided with a local thunderstorm but we do not know at this time whether those events were related.