Quotes of: Aldous-huxley Keyword

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

Julia Glass

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

William S. Burroughs

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

H. G. Wells

He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Ser un Sufi es desligarse de ideas fijas y preconcebidas, y no intentar eludir el propio destino. Abu-Said, hijo de Abi-Khair

Idries Shah

From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.

Eleanor Catton

I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

George Eliot

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

Brian K. Vaughan

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

Lars von Trier

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Carl Sagan

Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.

Auguste Comte

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

Alan Davies

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

Deborah Harkness

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Elizabeth Moon

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.

Sherwood Smith

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Thomas Love Peacock

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

Walter Mosley

Every day, we have to strive to be better people. Some days we give in to weakness, and sometimes we give in to strength.

Edward Kitsis