Realities of life for happy and unhappy people are basically the same.


David Niven

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You saved my life. why couldn't I save yours
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I turn to Libby. "You're kind. Probably the kindest person I know. You're also forgiving, at least a...
JENNIFER NIVEN
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
LARRY NIVEN
On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist....
LARRY NIVEN
The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim
LARRY NIVEN
We don't ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one.
JENNIFER NIVEN
For a minute, I can feel it: the sense of peace as my mind goes quiet, like I'm already dead. I am w...
JENNIFER NIVEN
In my dreams, I see 10 to 20 years from now, people who are 50 to 55 years old will get a cognitive ...
ANNE FAGAN NIVEN
To our surprise, three of the people that were PIB-positive and had low A-beta 42 levels were clinic...
ANNE FAGAN NIVEN
Our goal is to identify biomarkers, to be able to diagnose people early in the disease stage, hopefu...
ANNE FAGAN NIVEN
Behold this ruin! 'Twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full! This narrow cell was Life's ret...
ANNA JANE VARDILL (MRS. JAMES NIVEN)
The only thing I leave alone is the ceiling, because white contains all the wavelengths of the visib...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
I don’t need to worry that Finch and I never filmed our wanderings. It’s okay that we didn’t c...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
The Nest Houses aren’t there. It’s dark by the time I stop in downtown New Harmony, with its bri...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
Right now, he crosses his arms and frowns at me.

“Is it true you almost drowned Roamer...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
It’s okay to laugh, you know. The earth’s not going to split open. You’re not going to hell. B...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ...
DAVID DAVID KATZMAN
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar...
DAVID HAREWOOD
Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world....
DAVID HAREWOOD
In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ...
DAVID COVERDALE
George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo...
DAVID LANGE
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...
DAVID LYNCH
Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a...
DAVID CHALMERS
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
DAVID HARE
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar...
DAVID TENNANT
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik...
DAVID LETTERMAN
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i...
DAVID CRYSTAL
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
DAVID BAILEY
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
DAVID BAILEY
The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The...
DAVID BAILEY
I always go for simplicity.
DAVID BAILEY
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
DAVID BAILEY
All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa...
DAVID BAILEY
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
DAVID BAILEY
I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
DAVID BAILEY
People want security in this insecure world.
DAVID BAILEY
I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
DAVID BAILEY