A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.
Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.
I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.
It's funny, people don't think of 'Cloverfield' as being restrained because it's a handycam movie, but the only reason it's a handycam movie is because that was supposed to be the reality of the situation.
As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny.
It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty, musty term, and yet it clearly applies.
The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!
It's really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can't help me. I'm the only one who can help me.
I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.
As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.
Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.
The bulk of life on Earth lives in a peaceful place where the temperature is stable. There's hunting going on, but it's very civilized, like a slow ballet.
I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.
If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares in Africa.
Many Africans are used to a life where they get up in the morning and don't know what they're going to do that day.
President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy.
I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.
There were a lot of people, I found, who'd rather watch me live my life than live their own life.
Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.
