Brian Aldiss Quotes
English - Writer Born: August 18, 1925

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
Brian Aldiss

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
Brian Aldiss

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
Brian Aldiss

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.
Brian Aldiss

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.
Brian Aldiss

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.
Brian Aldiss

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.
Brian Aldiss

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth. Brian Aldiss Truth, Mind, Help Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
Brian Aldiss


Luciano De Crescenzo Quotes
Italian - Writer Born: August 18, 1928


We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
Luciano De Crescenzo

I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that 'Neapolitanism' and mass ignorance are somehow indissolubly linked is one that I am prepared to fight with all the strength I have.
Luciano De Crescenzo

Neapolitans have always had their fast food. It's called pizza.
Luciano De Crescenzo


Martin Mull Quotes
American - Actor Born: August 18, 1943

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
Martin Mull

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
Martin Mull

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.
Martin Mull

If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.
Martin Mull

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.
Martin Mull

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.
Martin Mull

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.
Martin Mull

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Martin Mull

It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.
Martin Mull

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.
Martin Mull

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.
Martin Mull

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.
Martin Mull

It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn't seem to be much stopping.
Martin Mull

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.
Martin Mull

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.
Martin Mull

I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever.
Martin Mull

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.
Martin Mull

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.
Martin Mull

It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.
Martin Mull

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.
Martin Mull

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.
Martin Mull

You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is.
Martin Mull

You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good.
Martin Mull