"The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious."

-- Alfred Bester

#Tests Quotes #Refusal Quotes #Obvious Quotes

“When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.”
“A real punk is punk on the inside.”
“When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.”
“A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.”

Source : "The Birthday Party is 50", www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2008.
“I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out”
“I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.”
“Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.”
“Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.”

Source : Roland Barthes, Richard Howard (1989). “Bruissement de la Langue”, p.13, Univ of California Press

You may also like:

Clifford D. Simak
Writer
Frederik Pohl
Writer
Fritz Leiber
Film writer
James Blish
Author
Poul Anderson
Author
Robert A. Heinlein
Science writer
Robert Silverberg
Author
Roger Zelazny
Writer
Theodore Sturgeon
Writer