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Going Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
- Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
- You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from,…
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction;…
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your…
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not…
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also…
- You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form…
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's…
- As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.
- But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear…
- I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.
- The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I…
- If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of…
- The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art…
- Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a…
- I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into…
- Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor,…
- Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish…
- Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown…
- Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. Its like the tide going out, revealing whatevers been thrown…
More Going Quotes
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase. — Julian Assange
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is… — Billie Joe Armstrong