It wasn’t until I got ‘SNL’ that my parents told me they were a little bit worried, like that I would have food to eat. Jorma Taccone Read Quote
There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four, the first three were all published principally in science-fiction magazines. They were preaching to the converted. Robert J. Sawyer Read Quote
In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company. John Burnham Schwartz Read Quote
I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that’s what you’d call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other. Bill Griffith Read Quote
I guess I’m pleased and proud of the respect of my peers, and that when I disappear from the scene or from this earth, I will have left a mark. They’ll say, ‘He did it well.’ I like being funny; it opens people up. Robert Klein Read Quote
I’ve noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn’t going to do anyway so here’s something more positive. I’m going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school. Arthur Smith Read Quote
The historical importance of a composer does not always go hand in hand with the quality of their work. Daniel Barenboim Read Quote
That’s what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level. Ellen Ochoa Read Quote
I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that’s hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator. Laurie Graham Read Quote
