Dysrecognition Quotes

#1. This is the essence of science fiction, the conceptual dislocation within the society is generated in the author's mind, transferred to paper, and from paper it occurs as a convulsive shock in the reader's mind, the shock of dysrecognition.

Philip K. Dick

#2. If someone offers to take your burden, you need to know he is serious, not just being polite and kind. Polite and kind do not last.

Amy Tan

#3. The secret to happiness is complaining very little.

Nikki Rowe

#4. He was lost out there. He was the lost Mohegan.

Mickey Rivers

#5. Rule number one: Never make anyone uncomfortable in your home-even morons.

Mary Matalin

#6. I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for.

Mike Gordon

#7. I think [President George W. Bush] contributed very directly to the fact that the status of America as the world's only superpower lasted for 20 years at most.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#8. I think believing in something is what matters most.
Believe in nature or believe in love or believe that by
doing the right thing you can make some difference
to another human being or an entire generation.

Rachel C. Weingarten

#9. It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

Jacqueline Carey

#10. I never wanted to be a director.

Albert Brooks

#11. There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.

Thomas Perry

#12. They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

Ronald Reagan

#13. Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#14. We wanted proper outback: a place where men were men and sheep were nervous.

Bill Bryson