Varley Quotes

#1. There were millions of Earth men and women who bought the Earth cultures big lies, and they died just as unhappy as you are now. And I suggest to you that it's a foolish thing.

John Varley

#2. Artist awake or be forever fallen.

Frederick Varley

#3. All in all, it was the goldarndest, Barnum-and-Baileyest, rib-stickinest, rough-and-tumblest infernal foofaraw of a media circus anybody had seen since grandpaw chased the possum down the road and lost his store teeth, and I was heartily sorry to have been a part of it.

John Varley

#4. Bill's tongue had started at Cirocco's toes and was now exploring her left ear. She liked that. It had been a memorable journey.

John Varley

#5. The English language was a delight to them, so illogical and fertile and well-suited to their natural desire to confuse, obfuscate, and generally side-step clear meaning whenever possible.

John Varley

#6. A toast! To the road! May it lead to adventure and carry us safely back home.

John Varley

#7. The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

Varley O'Connor

#8. Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.

Varley O'Connor

#9. Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#10. Yes, but what is it good for? What does it mean?" Her look was full of pity. "If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.

John Varley

#11. Draw your own moral from this, Sparky. And remember at the center of the cult of personality called stardom there is just a big empty hole. Awards don't matter. Acclaim doesn't matter. Only your craft matters.

John Varley

#12. But I don't believe in heroes anymore. I just believe in people coping with their lives as best they can. You do what you have to do, and in some ways you have no more choice about it than a rock has about falling from a high place.

John Varley

#13. Cirocco liked space, reading, and sex, not necessarily in that order. She had never been able to satisfactorily combine all three, but two was not bad.

John Varley

#14. Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#15. I had thought Chicago was inevitable, like diarrhea.

John Varley

#16. Chuck Norris has been known to throw a baseball 100 mph. I've been known to throw Chuck Norris 100 mph.

Brian Wilson

#17. If it's not worth making beautiful," Valiha said, "it's not worth making.

John Varley

#18. It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.

Christopher Lambert

#19. What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

Varley O'Connor

#20. I want to paint sunshine and burning golden leaves and blue waters, and laughing faces.

Frederick Varley

#21. I am certain that there are extremists on both sides of the gun control debate in Hawaii, as in the rest of the nation. However, it has been our willingness and ability to develop mutually respectful and effective gun control laws that have kept our community safe.

Colleen Hanabusa

#22. How heavy is that day in the mountains when you built a campfire and saw a shooting star? What is the mass of yesterday? How fast is love?

John Varley

#23. They eat the sewage that floats on the surface of the mass culture, digest it, and then get creative diarrhea
all at once. The turd look and smell exactly alike, and we call them this year's fashions, hit shows, books, and movies.

John Varley

#24. The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.

Henri Nouwen

#25. No country by itself and in an isolated manner would ever be able to effectively address the challenges it faces.

Hassan Rouhani

#26. She grew into a quiet, beautiful young woman. The beauty was a nuisance, like smog and poverty.

John Varley

#27. She knew for a fact, for instance, that what the Polo sisters did behind the closed doors of their adjoining rooms was still illegal in Alabama.

John Varley

#28. I cried when Mario Gotze told me hell leave Borussia Dortmund & join Bayern Munich

Marco Reus

#29. If she must face the fact that she was fearful, she would also face the fear and overcome it.

John Varley

#30. I do what I feel I know how to do and don't do things that I don't. I'm a product of my sensibility.

Scott Rudin

#31. We both had to reject the concept of life after death, even if we weren't brought up to believe in it, because all human cultures are steeped in the idea.

John Varley

#32. No matter how tough you think you are, thought you were, you haven't been around long enough to be tested in many, many ways.

John Varley

#33. Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.

Varley O'Connor