Shortand Quotes

#1. For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that stuff we like.

Hal Duncan

#2. My eye sees sacred things.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.

Julian Lennon

#4. The film [Django] really has a lot of ups and downs, and taps into a lot of different emotions. To me, the trick was balancing all those emotions, so that I could get you where I wanted you to be by the very end. I wanted the audience cheering in triumph at the end.

Quentin Tarantino

#5. I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. She'd not allow Daniel Barrett to escape her so easily. She'd placed a bounty on his heart, and she intended to collect.

Karen Witemeyer

#7. As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too.

Jazmine Sullivan

#8. Expect people to get at you when they need something and be smart enough to realise who's there and who isn't

Ramon Gazhang

#9. I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is not likely to be reproduced anywhere in the world for the next thousand years.

Bertrand Russell

#10. People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

Isabel Burton