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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9891e5f | The lower lip definitely states that all actors are cattle--including the author! | Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| c217cc3 | Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. | Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| 3e209a6 | I know you are in your best ao dai. You bought it when you were just eighteen. Gray is not a color for a young woman. Gray is the color you wanted because you were practical even then, knew that gray is a color you would grow into, still wear when your hair turned white. You snap yourself into this dress and cannot help but notice that it hangs from your body, nothing to cling to. Your breasts are smaller now than when he first saw them. Yo.. | Monique Truong | ||
| 9f15ad2 | Ma, please do not cry. I know I could have bought bread with it, a room for the night. I could have bought acts of love with it, but I could have never bought back the years of your life. Sorrow, even when tempered by sweat and toil into a whisper weight of gold, is still sorrow. Worthless to us both in the end, Ma. Better that a stranger circles the globe with it than your youngest son. | Monique Truong | ||
| 734867a | But that, I am afraid, was my mistake from the very beginning, the fatal flaw in my design. I thought that I could suffocate the Old Man with shovelfuls of dirt and mud. But with his body in the soil, in the specific silt of this family's land, everything on it was bound to die. Rancor seeped from his eyelids, his mouth, his ears, his ass, where his head had been all the days of his life. I should have never made him one with the land. I sh.. | Monique Truong | ||
| 635fccf | The Old Man, like the French, believed that black was the only appropriate color to display and wear in order to show grief. I know Ma, black is the color of our hair, the color of our irides with the coming of dusk , the color of a restful night's sleep, of coal rice, of tamarind pulp, of the unbroken shell of a thousand-year egg. How can this black be the color of sorrow? Underglazed with red river clay, deep water blue, high-in-the-tree-.. | Monique Truong | ||
| 1279416 | Years of alcohol can do that to a person, make him dead but not departed, make him indelible to those who have had the misfortune of sharing his name. | Monique Truong | ||
| 0e0486f | There is no forgiveness in ancestor worship, only retribution and eternal debt. | Monique Truong | ||
| 79ab315 | indeed these men had the dangerous look that Frank associated with machismo, the look of men who oppressed their women so cruelly that naturally the women struck back where they could, terrorizing sons who then terrorized wives who terrorized sons and so on and so on, in an endless death spiral of twisted love and sex hatred. So that in that sense they were all madmen. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 2ec1e58 | The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made. | Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| 964a32a | We do not recommend suicide as a way of life. | Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| 1019379 | And this is a very great gift; this, in the end, is what we think love gives, which is to say meaning. Because there is no very obvious meaning to be found in the universe, as far as we can tell. But a consciousness that cannot discern a meaning in existence is in trouble, very deep trouble, for at that point there is no organizing principle, no end to the halting problems, no reason to live, no love to be found. No: meaning is the hard pro.. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 848c523 | I deny that I ever said actors are cattle. What I said was, "Actors should be treated like cattle." | Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| cd91673 | Puns are the highest form of literature. | Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| 30950bc | Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. | Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| b3305a9 | Self-plagiarism is style. | Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| 925111f | And with our work," John continued, "we are carving out a new social order and the next step in the human story"--i.e., the latest variant in primate dominance dynamics." | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| b510f3f | Maybe the proper response to standing on the side of a planet, in the open air of its atmosphere, very near to the local star, is always terror. Maybe everything humans ever did or planned to do was designed to dodge that terror. Maybe their plan to go to the stars was just one more expression of that terror. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 5fb2279 | Tenia que ser el Chavo del Ocho. (Spanish for, It had to be the Chavo del Ocho.) | Ramón Valdés | ||
| 62655d6 | After all, in the end all the great moments of history have taken place inside people's heads. The moments of change, or the clinamen as the Greeks called it. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| eb926c8 | The world is like a tree, from every leaf you can work back to the roots. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| ebe4e5e | Sellers offer stuff, buyers buy it, and in the flux of supply and demand the price gets determined. It's crowdsourced, it's democratic, it's capitalism, it's the market. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| bcb8921 | ease of representation. It's always more than what you see, bigger than what you know. That said, people in this era did do it. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 1c31b53 | Remember: ease of representation. It's always more than what you see, bigger than what you know. That said, people in this era did do it. Individuals make history, but it's also a collective thing, a wave that people ride in their time, a wave made of individual actions. So ultimately history is another particle/wave duality that no one can parse or understand. Moving on from this brief excursion into political philosophy before the profund.. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| ccc10ac | bubbles and Ponzi schemes and capitalism all have to keep growing or else they are in deep shit. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| f8ac641 | Things are sold for less than it costs to make them. ... lots of business do go bankrupt. The ones that don't haven't actually sold their thing for more than it costs to make. They've just ignored some of their costs. ... they shove some of their production costs off their books. | economics | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| 5a81bbe | Some mistakes you never can make good. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 7cb09a1 | But things change as time passes; nothing lasts, not even stone, not even happiness. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| dfd76fc | You can't make love to your fame. Even though some people try. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 187199c | Popper called that monocausotaxophilia, | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 0d844c3 | And yet the whole meaning of the universe, its beauty, is contained in the consciousness of intelligent life. We are the consciousness of the universe, and our job is to spread that around, to go look at things, to live everywhere we can. It's too dangerous to keep the consciousness of the universe on only one planet, it could be wiped out. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 4fad3c9 | Crap in the Cloud. A novel of celestial sewage. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| bd76788 | I was told that one senior person at NSF finished reading the trilogy and immediately sold his house and moved into a camper in a trailer park. That's taking things too far, probably, but I like the impulse, because we read novels to help create our sense of what the world means, to mentally travel in other people's lives, and to get some laughs. So whether you light out for the territory afterward or not, read on, reader, and may this stor.. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 126925e | It is a form of grace to become nothing but a task" -Hjalmar Nederland from Kim Stanley Robinson's "Icehenge" | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 5fd1bda | And the unequal accumulation of wealth by the elites continued. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| cdaad52 | doesn't require very complicated math. One guy told me that if you just designed a clean data display, people were amazed. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 53d5385 | Is anger always just fear flung outward at the world? Can anger ever be a fuel for right action? Can anger make good? | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 1d0a663 | Wisdom is always wont to arrive late, and to be a little approximate on first possession. supposed Francis Spufford | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| b633808 | History is humankind trying to get a grip. Obviously not easy. But it could go better if you would pay a little more attention to certain details, like for instance your planet. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 21fc1db | Sleep, memory, sleep, body; fall thankfully into the moment, and dream. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| bde458e | That's why you aren't hearing from anyone out there. That's why the great silence persists. There are many other living intelligences out there, no doubt, but they can't leave their home planets any more than we can, because life is a planetary expression, and can only survive on its home planet." "But" | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 3a7df3c | It's not as if she needs the torch anymore, the welcome beacon to immigrants having been long since snuffed out. Probably | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 35b933f | Actually, I'd better look that thing up and find out what it's called. I'm pretty sure it has a name." "Everything has a name!" "Yes, I guess that's right." | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 655a7c9 | Of course we must do it! It is a matter of spirit! And that's not to say it could have been done earlier, the infrastructure had to be installed, that's always messy, but now we are ready for the art of architecture, the spirit of it." He" | Kim Stanley Robinson |