Rudolph Schindler Quotes & Sayings

Chalmers stopped listening and let his gaze wander over the new city. They were going to call it Nicosia. It was the first town of any size to be built free-standing on the Martian surface; all the buildings were set inside what was in effect an immense clear tent, supported by a nearly invisible frame, and placed on the rise of Tharsis, west of Noctis Labyrinthus. This location gave it a tremendous view, with a distant western horizon punctuated by the broad peak of Pavonis Mons. — Kim Stanley Robinson

I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be," Dove considered his prospects calmly, "all I know for certain is I'm born a world-shaker. — Nelson Algren

I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office! — Matthew Lesko

Was it possible to ever really know anyone, or was I simply the worst judge of character in all of history? — Mary E. Pearson

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view. — Michael Eisner

Because there's nothing you can do about other people's reactions. You be yourself and let them be themselves and if you don't get what you want then tough and if you do then good for you and that's it. Everything else is manipulation and I spit on it.
-Zal — Justina Robson

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. — George Eliot