Genrehood Quotes

#1. SF does possess at least two of the classic markers of genrehood, namely intellectual disreputability and moral salaciousness. SF thrives because it is idea porn.

Neal Stephenson

#2. He's weak, afraid and dumber than your dog.
Besides, you gonna bet the farm on a pig?

The Alien Club

Trel Sidoruk

#3. All's well if all ends well.

William Shakespeare

#4. The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Jonathan Swift

#5. Hook your audience with a tiny snag of truth, and the Holy Spirit will unravel the rest.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#6. Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.

Morihei Ueshiba

#7. The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [ ... ] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.

Albert Camus

#8. When I'm playing comedy, it is such a crap shoot of what will work and what won't.

Elaine Stritch

#9. Don't eat a beefsteak. If you do the eyes of that cow will pursue you through all eternity.

James Joyce

#10. To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

Hosea Ballou

#11. Because of streaming, serialized television has become less of a dirty word when you're pitching shows. I had to fight for that for so long as someone who's always gravitated towards ongoing story lines with characters that evolved and changed and storylines that continued over longer arcs.

Jason Katims

#12. Timing is everything in this markets.

Daniel S. Loeb

#13. I hate writing, I love having written.

Dorothy Parker