Top 100 Quotes About Niven
#1. In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye.
Karolyn Grimes
#2. The first proper mystery novel that I read was 'Murder On the Orient Express' with a gaunt David Niven and a cherubic Peter Ustinov on the cover. 'Orient Express,' you'll recall, is the one where everyone did it, which delighted me no end, and I was immediately hooked.
Adrian McKinty
#3. I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
Larry Niven
#4. From David Niven's autobiography, Bring on the Empty Horses. Director Mike Curtiz to David Niven & Errol Flynn: You lousy bums, you and your stinking language, you think I know fuck nothing, well let me tell you - I know FUCK ALL!
David Niven
#5. LARRY NIVEN is best known as a science-fiction writer.
Neil Gaiman
#6. I've always been a secret locked-room fanatic. I read my first one when I was about ten or 11, Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express,' with David Niven and Peter Ustinov on the cover.
Adrian McKinty
#7. And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.
Val Guest
#8. I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.
John Niven
#9. Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.
John Niven
#10. Love was a delicious blend of warm and cold. There was comfort in making love. It solved no problems: but one could run away from problems.
Larry Niven
#11. Everyone know of him. Some people hate him because they think he's weird and he gets into fights and gets kicked out of school and does what he wants. Some people worship him because he's weird and he gets into fights and gets kicked out of school and does what he wants.
Jennifer Niven
#12. Cliff shrugged. None of their ideas sounded
Larry Niven
#13. A novel I read when I was about 17 or 18 - 'The World According to Garp,' by John Irving - really made me want to become a writer. The character of Garp is a novelist, and at the time, the whole lifestyle of being a writer was hugely appealing to me.
John Niven
#14. There is only now,' he says, 'and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion.
Jennifer Niven
#15. In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap.
Larry Niven
#17. And in that moment there's nothing I fear except losing hold of her hand.
Jennifer Niven
#18. me - everything might just explode. I keep my eyes on the road. "You know what I like about you, Ultraviolet Remarkey-able? Everything." "But I thought you didn't like me." And then I look at her. She raises an eyebrow at me. I
Jennifer Niven
#19. If you're not careful, you're going to run into someone angrier than you.
Jennifer Niven
#20. I remember her smile and her laugh when I was my best self and she looked at me like I could do no wrong and was whole. I remember how she looked at me the same way even when I wasn't.
Jennifer Niven
#21. This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.
David Niven
#22. Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
Larry Niven
#23. It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.
Larry Niven
#24. I've always thought you should be able to freeze time. This way you could hit the Pause button at a really good point in your life so that nothing changes
Jennifer Niven
#25. I once read Updike after writing a first draft, and I wanted to put my own book on the fire. I've since learned to read utter crap while I'm writing: pulp is the thing.
John Niven
#26. The thing about eating is that there are so many other more interesting things to do. I feel the same way about sleeping. Complete wastes of time.
Jennifer Niven
#27. That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
Larry Niven
#29. I'd rather be judged on what I can do instead of who I'm not.
Jennifer Niven
#30. I'd like to live in a world designed by Theodore Finch.
Jennifer Niven
#32. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. ... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.
Jennifer Niven
#33. But you've never even been as far as the Moon.
Larry Niven
#34. I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.
John Niven
#35. I use computers and the Internet every day of my life, and yet I have absolutely no idea how they work. I'm like a labrador watching 'The Matrix.'
John Niven
#37. I like to think that the colors and sounds and words have nothing to do with him, that they're all me and my own brilliant, complicated, buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, godlike brain" -Finch
Jennifer Niven
#38. If anyone can make it to another world, it's Theodore Finch.
Jennifer Niven
#41. I run for miles but don't count them, passing dark house after dark house. I feel sorry for everyone in this town who's sleeping. I
Jennifer Niven
#42. Will you want me just as much when I'm fifteen feet nine inches?
Jennifer Niven
#43. I want to say It's okay to be a person. We're all afraid. We all get hurt. It's okay to hurt. You'd be so much more likable if you just acted human.
Jennifer Niven
#44. The Clash had a unique, special relationship with Scotland. Perhaps it was something to do with the energy, anger and beauty in their music. In Scotland at that time, there was a lot of to be angry about. And a great need of some energy and beauty.
John Niven
#45. We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.
Jennifer Niven
#47. I'm not ready. These are the three magic words. I've discovered they can get you out of almost anything.
Jennifer Niven
#48. seeing something different as a problem instead of seeing it as an asset.
David Niven
#49. I want you to know I'm rooting for you.' Sometimes we need to hear that, even from a stranger.
Jennifer Niven
#50. The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The short answer is, science fiction stories are given as possible, not necessarily here and now, but somewhere, sometime.
Larry Niven
#51. I'm sorry about Finch. He was a good, screwed up kid who should have had more help." "I feel responsible.
Jennifer Niven
#53. He's the kind of Finch who would stand on a building and think about jumping just because nothing scares him. He is seriously badass.
Jennifer Niven
#54. Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.
David Niven
#57. I'm still here, and I'm grateful, because otherwise I would be missing this. Sometimes it's good to be awake.
Jennifer Niven
#58. Drive anywhere and everywhere, even when there's nowhere to go. (Note: There's always somewhere to go.)
Jennifer Niven
#59. Violet says, 'Are you okay now?' Her hair is windblow and her cheeks are flushed. Whather she likes it or not, she seemes happy. I take a good long look at her.
Jennifer Niven
#60. I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257-foot bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.
Jennifer Niven
#61. My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
Larry Niven
#62. I do not believe they've run out of surprises.
Larry Niven
#63. Maybe it's better that she's locked away from the rest of the world. Maybe she's not cut out to live like other people with other people. Maybe she belongs in that house forever.
Jennifer Niven
#64. I skim through our notebook, thick with words, and then through our Facebook messages - so many now - and then I write a new one, quoting Virginia Woolf: Let us wander whirling to the gilt chairs. ... Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here ... ?
Jennifer Niven
#65. But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are aligned with the earth and I'm floating.
Jennifer Niven
#66. She and I have gotten to be kind of friendly, and that's making me very, very happy. Like stupidly happy. Like so-happy-my-friends-can't-stand-to-be-around-me happy.
Jennifer Niven
#67. You may create a inspirational & visually resplendent strategy map but without accountability its value is specious
Paul R. Niven
#68. When it's my turn, I introduce myself as Josh Raymond, seventeen, no previous experience beyond my recent halfhearted experiment with sleeping pills. "The Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect is life," I add, even though no one knows what this means
Jennifer Niven
#69. I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.
Larry Niven
#70. Violet Markey.There's more to you than meets the eye.
Jennifer Niven
#73. The cadence of suffering has begun - Cesare Pavese
I
am
in
pieces.
Jennifer Niven
#75. I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.
David Niven
#76. I've always been different, but to me different is normal. i decide on a version of the truth.
Jennifer Niven
#77. I remember him standing next to me at Hoosier Hill, smiling out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he could see Oz. 'Believe it or not, it's actually beautiful to some people..' So I decide to see it through his eyes.
Jennifer Niven
#78. I need exercise and solitude. This time of confinement has threatened my sanity!
Larry Niven
#79. Too much of my life feels like this already- trying to recycle something old into something new and better, disguising someone else's trash as some fresh, shiny thing.
Jennifer Niven
#80. Future generations of economists will look at the trickle-down theory in much the same way we now look at witch burning, slavery, and the Sinclair C5.
John Niven
#81. I understand that some people like certain things more than others, but by the time you are an adult, you really should be able to sit down and eat pretty much anything.
John Niven
#82. My fur is matted, my eyes refuse to refocus, my sthondat-begotten room is too small, my microwave heater heats all meat to the same temperature, and it is the wrong temperature, and I cannot get it fixed.
Larry Niven
#83. It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards.
John Niven
#84. This is my secret
that any moment I might fly away. Everyone on earth but me
and now Violet
moves in slow motion, like they're filled with mud. We are faster than all of them.
Jennifer Niven
#85. The thing suicides don't focus on is their wake. Not just your parents and siblings, but your friends, your girlfriends, your classmates, your teachers.' I like the way he seems to think I have many, many people depending on me, including not just one but multiple girlfriends.
Jennifer Niven
#86. Stars in the sky, stars on the ground. It's hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins. I feel the need to say something grand and poetic, but the only thing I come up with is It's lovely.
Jennifer Niven
#87. The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
Larry Niven
#88. Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.
Larry Niven
#89. What would I have said to him if I'd known I would never see him again?
Jennifer Niven
#90. I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.
David Niven
#91. The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds.
John Niven
#92. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for. Not that I'm one to talk.
Jennifer Niven
#93. I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy.
David Niven
#94. The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
Larry Niven
#95. You are the most amazing person I've ever met. You're different. You're you. Always. Who else can say that except maybe Seth Powell, and he's an idiot. You, Libby Strout, are not an idiot.
Jennifer Niven
#96. Sometimes, Ultraviolet, things feel true to us even if they're not.
Jennifer Niven
#97. And then, because I'm now the one thinking too much, and because she is different from all other girls and because I really, really don't want to screw this up, I concentrate on kissing her on the banks of the Blue Hole, in the sunshine, and I let that be enough.
Jennifer Niven
#98. What were you doing up on that ledge?" It comes out a whisper.
"The same thing you were. I wanted to see what it was like. I wanted to imagine jumping off it. I wanted to leave all the shit behind. But when I did start to imagine it, I didn't like what it looked like. And then I saw you.
Jennifer Niven
#99. I looked at my reflection in the rearview mirror. Some lipstick would go with this truck, I thought.
Jennifer Niven
#100. I go to the Caribbean for a month every January with hand baggage only. All you need is a passport and a credit card.
John Niven
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