"To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two."

-- Sheri S. Tepper

#Ideas Quotes #Two Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.”
“Is there stop 'n' go counseling for couples on the run?”

Source : Becky Freeman, Becky Freeman Johnson (1996). “Marriage 911”, B & H Publishing Group
“My plant is probably dead." Camryn looks slightly surprised. "You have a plant?" I smile. "Yeah, her name's Georgia.”
“I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.”

Source : "Minister's second chance for stardom". Interview with Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2004.
“I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture. You go right up to them. Even now, I don't find it easy. I don't announce it. I pretend to be focusing elsewhere. If you take someone's photograph it is very difficult not to look at them just after. But it's the one thing that gives the game away. I don't try and hide what I'm doing - that would be folly.”
“When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what's in their hearts. This can save you from becoming an adult too early, save your life from becoming only theirs lived over again--which is a loss. But to shield yourself--as I didn't do--seems to be an even greater error, since what's lost is the truth of your parents' life and what you should think about it, and beyond that, how you should estimate the world you are about to live in.”
“Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.”
“I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt”

You may also like: