Quotes About Reynolds

It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sumbitch or another. -- Malcolm Reynolds

Once when somebody produced a newspaper in which there was a letter of stupid abuse of Sir Joshua Reynolds, of which Johnson himself came in for a share,––'Pray (said he), let us have it read aloud from beginning to end'; which being done, he with a ludicrous earnestness, and not directing his look to any particular person, called out, 'Are we alive after all this satire?

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?

Behold the wedding gun,' the Ordinator said, holding the box aloft.

Weyl curvature tensor . . . but consciousness was no

I suppose I'd better …" he was saying, making a show of letting everyone know he was at least considering getting involved, even though he was happier behind a desk than wrestling with drunks.

Clavain was looking at a hyperpig: a genetic chimera of pig and human.

Calvin raised his fingers in lazy acknowledgement. "So . . ." he said. "The shit's about to match coordinates with the fan.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded

Must you respect a man to be in his service?" "No," he answered carefully. "But since it helps to be paid, you must respect the fullness of his pockets.

What's that smell?" Reynolds asked. That smell is the stuff they grow mushrooms in." DeForrest sniffed the air. "Shit?" he asked. Captain Suzie shrugged. "Manure.

At the time Carrie was living at the edge but hadn't yet begun to send any postcards.

Hazing was against regulations but it was sometimes necessary for the formation of discipline, and by God! Private Reynolds had been in need of some proper Army discipline.

In "The Reynolds Pamphlet," Hamilton had exposed only his own folly. In the Adams pamphlet, he displayed both his own errant judgment and Adams's instability.

It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.

Life is precious. Infinitely so. Perhaps it takes a machine intelligence to appreciate that. ~Understanding Space & Time

Hamilton could not have been stupid enough to pay hush money for sex, Callender alleged, so the money paid to James Reynolds had to involve illicit speculation.

I don't have an agent - I have the William Morris Agency.

She says the clogs are comfortable, and that comfort trumps fashion as far as she's concerned. Gavin has tried quoting Yeats to the effect that women must labour to be beautiful, but Reynolds Ã¢â'¬â€œ who used to be a passionate Yeats fan Ã¢â'¬â€œ is now of the opinion that Yeats is entitled to his point of view, but that was then and social attitudes were different, and in actual fact Yeats is dead. Reynolds

When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader.

I was really impressed by '2312.'

I don't call myself a method actor, but the thing is, when you meet Reynolds Woodcock, who is always Reynolds Woodcock, you kind of are Alma, and you kind of become Alma all the time. I think after the first day, Vicky was going, 'Oh gosh.' It was so intense, and I couldn't understand why it was so intense.

Alan Moore's first choice to be the Comedian... was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Burt Reynolds; I saw myself as Edward Blake.

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.