To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
It was awful, he cried, awful, awful! Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.
I love to be awful. There's nothing wrong with being awful.
To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.
I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I'm in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like re...
Sir Lancelot: Look, my liege! [trumpets play a fanfare as the camera cuts briefly to the sight of a majestic castle] King Arthur: [in awe] Camelot! Sir Galahad: [in awe] Camelot! Sir Lancelot: [in awe] Camelot! Patsy: [derisively] It's only a model! ...
Irony is the kid who steals music and is stolen by the music.
I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.
In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship." "It's awful worse luck not to.
My mother was an awful cook, an exceptionally awful kosher cook, but I stayed kosher until I got to college, even though I'd long stopped believing in God.
There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.
I hate letting my teammates down. I know I'm not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don't feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker ...
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
Scarlett: How do I look? Rhett Butler: Awful. Just awful. Scarlett: Why? What's the matter?
The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
It's awful, I hate it" is hardly the other side of "That is beautiful and I loved it."
I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.
Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.
I'm definitely not a monthly guy. Probably never will be. I'm simply in awe of the guys who do monthly books well... hell, in awe of people who do monthlies period.
