- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Few Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the kid at six who was like, 'I want to be in a jazz club.' I was never the pop kid, ever. I mean that's not true, I had a couple years where I wanted to be Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, but aside from that, no.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to say I would never run unless I was being chased by someone with a gun. Now I'm a little obsessed with it!
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
- Opportunities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020