Alastair Reynolds quote: "I'm always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is off-putting to the uninitiated. You open up the first page, and it's full of all these made-up words."

We've had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we've had novels where India is do...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I don't know." That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he kne...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some p...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

Can we drop the ‘artificial intelligence’? It’s a bit like me calling you a meat-based process...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't l...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fa...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

But beyond a certain scale vast was simply vast.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossame...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

Only an evolutionary eyeblink separated Kanu from the savannah, and that was just as true for the Ri...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

Making love was a game of echoes. We had shared memories so many times that when I made love to her,...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

Yves Klein said it was the essence of colour itself: the colour that stood for all other colours. A ...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

To see something marvellous with your own eyes –that’s wonderful enough.

But when tw...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations ...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

If there's a story I absolutely cannot tell without faster-than-light travel, then I am quite pr...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I always say that keeping abreast of science should never be seen as a chore. It should be something...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the ...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

When I look back at many of the moments of wonder, awe, or terror that I've got from science fic...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I'm not massively fond of right-wing nutters or war criminals.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I've never had much interest in spinoffery - the idea of writing in someone else's universe ...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to ...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and th...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I think I set myself on a course to become a scientist around about the time that Carl Sagan's &...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I prioritise story over science, but not at the expense of being really stupid about it.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

All I can say for certain is that, beneath the scrambled chaos of my memories, I feel a driving impe...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
ALASTAIR WOOD

We try to teach them how to make a presentation so that it's valuable to people, so they deliver a m...
ALASTAIR WOOD

I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a C...
ALASTAIR WOOD

I think we need to think beyond the issue of absolute risk.
ALASTAIR WOOD

I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more produc...
ALASTAIR WOOD

Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.
ALASTAIR WOOD

A generation of arrogance. We didn't trust anyone over 30. We believed we could fix all the prejudic...
ALASTAIR WOOD

and that risk is not trivial.
ALASTAIR WOOD

There's no evidence they are a good value,
ALASTAIR WOOD

It seems improbable to me that ... politics hasn't trumped science here, which is a tragedy,
ALASTAIR WOOD

It's such an in-your-face country. Probably the best individual moment was getting to Cape Town, get...
ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS

The first year I found really quite lonely and quite hard. It was awful. I was in this horrible hote...
ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS

I didn't want to get a job. I wanted to see all these places and all that obvious stuff, but mostly ...
ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS

I was at university and it was pretty easy, trundling along towards getting a job after that, I just...
ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS

The suspension didn't come at a good time for me because I'd just holed another big putt and then I ...
ALASTAIR FORSYTH

I was a bit nervous at the start and no doubt I will be tomorrow because there are good players brea...
ALASTAIR FORSYTH

It was not a good time for me to stop because I just birdied 11 and 13, but I more than made up for ...
ALASTAIR FORSYTH

I was pretty nervous at the start but handled it well. Tomorrow (Sunday) will be a tough day, though...
ALASTAIR FORSYTH

The (new structure) will allow us to create a faster and stronger multidisciplinary team, which can ...
ALASTAIR CURTIS

The Nokia 8800 is as much an object of art and desire, as it is an advanced piece of technology.
ALASTAIR CURTIS

The Nokia 8800 has clearly found an audience with individuals who appreciate quality materials and w...
ALASTAIR CURTIS

For many consumers, the mobile phone has truly become an extension of their personal style. Every de...
ALASTAIR CURTIS

Kevin took the pressure off me, I just played my own game and watched from the other end.
ALASTAIR COOK

Wicket has not spun as we thought it would. But the signs are there (that it will turn tomorrow). If...
ALASTAIR COOK

I enjoyed the great experience of playing against India on its own ground, with the fans cheering al...
ALASTAIR COOK

Sometimes opportunities come and you've got to try and take it.
ALASTAIR COOK

David told me I was going as cover for Vaughan and to enjoy it,
ALASTAIR COOK

It's unfortunate for Vaughan to be injured but a great opportunity for me and I will make the most o...
ALASTAIR COOK

I'm very excited about it and can't wait to get together with the rest of the squad.
ALASTAIR COOK

He has been fantastic. It is great, he every now and then takes you aside and gives you little bits ...
ALASTAIR COOK

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be heading to Pakistan,
ALASTAIR COOK

It was a great feeling to see that ball go through for four, it was unbelievable. It might be a clic...
ALASTAIR COOK

I'm not sure what exactly the medical people have got planned for him, but I'd imagine he'd play a h...
ALASTAIR CLARKSON

Certainly the stats so far suggest Carlton aren't going as long as what they did previously. We need...
ALASTAIR CLARKSON

He's got belief in himself and we've got belief in him, so we move forward and he's playing and he's...
ALASTAIR CLARKSON

It will depend on what the supply is like. There are so many variables.
ALASTAIR CLARKSON

Their work over the whole game was great, but that third quarter was the difference between the two ...
ALASTAIR CLARKSON

He hurt his shoulder about six weeks ago and he hasn't played any matches since then, so we thought ...
ALASTAIR CLARKSON

He has said he is going to stay for a full term and I think it is absolutely right that he does that...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

The EU is Russia's largest trading partner, and we are increasingly interdependent. It is on our int...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

If it's a fundamental principle, the length of the grass doesn't matter.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

When your lordships carefully and critically examine the evidence, they will be driven by that to co...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

It is going to need a lot of continuing work talking to the parties before we can get to the stage o...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

He found it hilarious that some of the press - the more one-eyed of the NZ media - were blaming me f...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

A huge character, Gareth would bring a very different, perhaps more warlike approach,
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

time to move on and do other things.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

The reality is, there is no point denying this, that Tony has taken a big political hit as a result ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

We don?t do God, I am sorry.' - when asked by an American reporter about Tony Blair?s religious view...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football f...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen -...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it w...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

may have killed the cat; more likely
the cat was just unlucky, or else curious
to see what d...
ALASTAIR REID

Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is; and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, ...
ALASTAIR REID

We may see prices coming off. We're seeing less demand for gold in jewelry.
ALASTAIR MCINTYRE

We're having a bit of consolidation as the dollar strengthens a bit. But there's no change in the tr...
ALASTAIR MCINTYRE

Anytime we've got above $900, the real demand for platinum in terms of discretionary buying has, if ...
ALASTAIR MCINTYRE

The takeover vehicles being created tend to be high risk because they are exposed to a lot of debt. ...
ALASTAIR GUNN

Associated British Ports has got an asset base in the ports, a security of income and a consistency ...
ALASTAIR GUNN

Freedom is when the people can speak, democracy is when the government listens.
ALASTAIR FARRUGIA

In Palestinian eyes we can no longer be considered an honest broker.
ALASTAIR CROOKE

As soon as the defendant found out the story was untrue _ it had been picked up from another newspap...
ALASTAIR BRETT

South Korea and India are key markets for diesel growth in Asia, and the market in China is continuo...
ALASTAIR BEDWELL

As a proven, cost-effective and 'off-the-shelf' solution, diesel has a head start over other emergin...
ALASTAIR BEDWELL

Furious activity is no substitute for analytical thought.
ALASTAIR PILKINGTON

There is going to have to be another leader in place when the next election comes and you would have...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

He included plenty of references of specific points of anxiety relating to the training and the day ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

That is just something that he is prepared to take because he thinks the benefits to the country out...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

For the entire period I worked for Tony Blair, almost a decade, I did not use a computer. This was n...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

And what cats have to tell
on each return from hell
is this: that dying is what the living...
ALASTAIR REID

It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no ...
ALASTAIR BRUCE

He had an outstanding game with two fifties and four wickets to round off a week in which he became ...
ALASTAIR COOK

He is a fantastic captain to have and we all have just been following him.
ALASTAIR COOK

Genetics is very much about having large numbers of animals so you can select the elite population a...
ALASTAIR NELSON

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am of...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom t...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inheri...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competiti...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
ALASTAIR WOOD

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happines...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

I think I'm highly loveable.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond cove...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

I had a happy childhood.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

When Clive announced the team to play Southland on Tuesday, it was a rare occasion where players wer...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

Enslavement can come in many guises and the denial of knowledge is one such tragic example inflicted...
ALASTAIR R. AGUTTER

Love can come from enduring ones life journey, where from such a venture, you will learn compassion ...
ALASTAIR R. AGUTTER

The Arts, Hobbies, Interests and Pastimes, have served as a measurement of a civilized society over ...
ALASTAIR R. AGUTTER

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences...
JOSHUA REYNOLDS

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
RYAN REYNOLDS

I don't think you can ever be bitter about anything, because if you don't allow your heart t...
DEBBIE REYNOLDS

When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern...
RYAN REYNOLDS

I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.
RYAN REYNOLDS

In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil ...
MERCER REYNOLDS

A lot of it was building trust and an open dialogue with each other.
AL REYNOLDS

Many if not most of the property owners out there have taken the next steps.
AL REYNOLDS

A lot of rural property owners are finding a lot of offers right now. Agriculture is in dire straits...
AL REYNOLDS

You don't want him to go but he made this commitment and we're supporting his commitment that he mad...
AL REYNOLDS

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS

My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always...
DAN REYNOLDS

There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send ...
DAN REYNOLDS

I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
DAN REYNOLDS

I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my min...
DAN REYNOLDS

But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
DAN REYNOLDS

I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench ...
RYAN REYNOLDS

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his...
RYAN REYNOLDS

If God had an agent, the world wouldn't be built yet. It'd only be about Thursday.
JERRY REYNOLDS

In both fours, we viewed the race as an opportunity to work on our race plan against a fast opponent...
ALISON REYNOLDS

There's no evidence to suggest that cooling relations has dampened business.
ALISON REYNOLDS

Many people have used the argument that opening up trade leads to political reform and social reform...
ALISON REYNOLDS

The Tibetan people will not be satisfied until there is political change which will give them genuin...
ALISON REYNOLDS

The police have promised not to do that again and we will demonstrate at every point in this visit.
ALISON REYNOLDS

What we would like to see is Tony Blair making a public statement of concern over these issues.
ALISON REYNOLDS

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
BURT REYNOLDS

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS

I had the sets that meant so much to this character built - right in my home, especially the kitchen...
DEBBIE REYNOLDS

Old age is a wonderful time of life. At least, that's what everyone tells you. But let me tell y...
DEBBIE REYNOLDS

Making a mix CD - albeit slightly old school - is generally a pretty cool gift and something I like ...
RYAN REYNOLDS

I've had an alarming amount of concussions.
RYAN REYNOLDS

A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every thre...
RYAN REYNOLDS

We slept in the park before we had a house, and eventually we shared a home - my parents, my grandpa...
DEBBIE REYNOLDS

The stunts on the ground I can do, but I've never been good with heights.
RYAN REYNOLDS

My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ag...
RYAN REYNOLDS

'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' was my favorite for me to be in because it was all dancing. The...
DEBBIE REYNOLDS

Everything about the studio was enormous. You walked through the gates of iron, and it was palatial ...
DEBBIE REYNOLDS

He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of ...
RYAN REYNOLDS

I think there's escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If it's d...
RYAN REYNOLDS

Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS

I want happiness for my daughter - I want Carrie to be happy.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS

She hadn’t needed him to escape that place. But rather than making him angry, it only made him pro...
D.B. REYNOLDS

But stronger and brighter than any other was his mate bond with Lana. She was in every beat of his h...
DB REYNOLDS

'Singin' in the Rain' and childbirth are two of the hardest things I ever had to do in m...
DEBBIE REYNOLDS

Our direction does not come from the CIA to investigate a disease outbreak.
BARBARA REYNOLDS

A lot of streets are still very dark in town and not set up numerically, ... This cuts down on our r...
BARBARA REYNOLDS

[The uncommonly high mortality rate makes the] bird flu ... their illness seems to progress rapidly ...
BARBARA REYNOLDS

The funds given by the Government of Japan will help us to save the lives of thousands of children.
BARBARA REYNOLDS

I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning...
ALBERT REYNOLDS

I am convinced that nobody should be afraid of peace.
ALBERT REYNOLDS

We believe that with good will on both sides, that a compromise could be worked out,
ALBERT REYNOLDS

It's a great day.
ALBERT REYNOLDS

is a position that, if held on to, will certainly wreck the peace process.
ALBERT REYNOLDS

What Ireland needs now above all else is peace.
ALBERT REYNOLDS

I like being a Girl Scout.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS

I was just a beginner, and she and I were not in any manner alike, but we got along very well becaus...
DEBBIE REYNOLDS

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.
BURT REYNOLDS

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
BURT REYNOLDS

I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list fo...
RYAN REYNOLDS

Anytime you're going to take your Marines into harm's way, they are looking for leadership t...
LORETTA REYNOLDS

I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book read...
RYAN REYNOLDS

There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
DAN REYNOLDS

Bette Davis was a close friend. She loved to have a good time.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS

Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.
RYAN REYNOLDS

I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being...
DAN REYNOLDS

If you're going to commit to that, you're going to have to find some way to make it bearable...
RYAN REYNOLDS

He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, ...
DEBBIE REYNOLDS

I had to wear that suit, so I put in my required time in the gym. But I'm not one of those actor...
RYAN REYNOLDS

A well-tailored suit is important - and I don't like wearing belts with mine - it should be tail...
RYAN REYNOLDS

I'm always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is off-putting to the uninitiated. You open up the first page, and it's full of all these made-up words.

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I'm always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is off-putting to the uninitiated. You open up the first page, and it's full of all these made-up words.

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