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Friday, 22 April 2011
Thursday, 21 April 2011
Quote of the day
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
Sherlock Holmes
Yes, I know he'd fictional, but I can scarcely credit his editor Conan Doyle, can I?
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Quote of the day
Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.
John W. Campbell Jr.
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
Monday, 18 April 2011
Friday, 15 April 2011
Quote of the day
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
H. L. Mencken
Thursday, 14 April 2011
Quote of the day
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Quote of the day
It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
Tom Wolfe
Monday, 11 April 2011
Quote of the day
A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness.
T E Lawrence
Friday, 8 April 2011
Quote of the day
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
Evelyn Waugh
Thursday, 7 April 2011
Quote of the day
This is horror, admitted, of a sort, but it is horror perpetrated by unhuman beings. They're not relatable to Dad–at least, I hope they're not! And it's entirely harmless in this context. (On his creation, the Cybermen, in Doctor Who)
Kit Pedler
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Quote of the day
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
John Steinbeck
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Quote of the day
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
John Steinbeck
Monday, 4 April 2011
Friday, 1 April 2011
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Quote of the Day
A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
Robert Graves
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Quote of the day
If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you've got left are the sheep.
Alfred Bester
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Quote of the day
People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
Frederik Pohl
Monday, 28 March 2011
Quote of the day
Luigi, the restaurant manager, said to me once that he keeps that particular table for the Queen of Norway or the Queen of Denmark. One night the Queen of Norway was eating at this table and the Queen of Denmark walked in. She looked at the table, she looked at the Queen of Norway, she looked at Luigi and without a word she walked out.
Egon Ronay
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