#mad

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#buddy #different #english #fiction #john

Mathematicians are born, not made. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#made #mathematicians

I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#bed #come #get #go #hollywood

I had big shoes to fill, but the way we have been playing has made the transition easy. ↗

— Ricky Ponting

#big #big shoes #easy #fill #had

Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress. ↗

— John Pople

#base #changing #could #easy #frequently

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. ↗

— Beilby Porteus

#made #millions #murder #villain

I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I'm too absentminded. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#cook #cooking #day #exactly #felt

Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women. ↗

— Reynolds Price

#children #even #even now #fathers #feminism

My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around. ↗

— Louis Prima

#band #because #brother #followed #his

Attitude is a state of mind that results in an action taken or an emotion displayed. Attitude, in the end, is a motivator or that which generates or reflects motives. ↗

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

#made-in-the-image-of-god #metaphysics #nature-of-god #nature-of-man #reid-ashbaucher