#time

It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff. ↗

— Greg Bear

#anything #doing #extraordinary #fiction #kind

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#history #history books #i #lot #read

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#ahead #blockhead #great #great person #make

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#books #children #complicated #dare #i

There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But it would have been worse for the children and the family in general. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#children #died #family #general #husband

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work. ↗

— Les Baxter

#could #hardly #i #much #time

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption. ↗

— Andre Bazin

#corruption #create #does #eternity #photography

It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#big #difference #dressed #get #little

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away. ↗

— Alan Bean

#feel #i #i feel #i feel like #just

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#lie #nation #necessary #sometimes