Charles Stross Quotes

I just don’t like it, for extremely large values of don’t and like.

Charles Stross

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• Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Literature
  • Understand
  • Gold

• I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Blue

• Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Done
  • Doing
  • Student

• Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Important
  • Effort
  • Training

• When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Time
  • Want
  • You

• We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Government

• My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Justice
  • Fair
  • Fairness

• I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Hate
  • Football
  • New York

• Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my family. Sometimes, you'd see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you'd see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy... I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Think
  • Want
  • Laugh

• When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.

  

  A. James Clark
  • High
  • Project
  • Did

• Working across the aisle, I helped pass laws exposing business dealings in Iran, cracking down on Iranian human rights abusers, and applying crippling sanctions to Iran's oil and gas industries.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Business
  • Down
  • Oil

• The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Real
  • Free
  • Confidence

• As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Time
  • Band
  • Air

• Well aware of both the continuity and contingency of human affairs, Adams and Madison searched the works of Tacitus and Voltaire and Locke like carpenters rummaging through their assortment of tools, knowing that all the pediments were jury-rigged, all the provisional, all the alliances temporary.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham

• Drive for a couple miles You'll see a sign and turn left For a couple blocks Next is mine, you'll turn left on a little road It's a bumpy one.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Couple
  • Road

• Off-Off-Broadway is absolutely necessary. It doesn't have to be sanctioned by the state, subsidized or anything. The plank and the passion is what it's about.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Passion

• Cerca de mí no hay más que lejanías.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

  

  Stieg Larsson
  • Happens
  • Consequences
  • Novels

• Well, Hollywood isn't made up of individual studio heads anymore. It's made of corporations. And corporations are looking for the bottom line. They don't want to take chances. They want the money back for stockholders.

  

  Frank Oz
  • Up
  • Money

• I was a very scared child. Not, you know, not so much of life but of the demons that lurked in the dark. And horror movies terrified me. You know, I'd love watching them but then at night, I would just be up in sweats all night.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • Life
  • Up
  • Night

• I just got in music because it was a hobby. I got into clubs for free, got to drink for free and left with the hottest girl from the night. I never dreamed it would be for me to go on this kind of ride at all.

  

  Shaggy
  • Music
  • Night
  • Girl

• I just don’t like it, for extremely large values of don’t and like.

  

  Charles Stross