Charles Stross Quotes
History is another country and might be full of fascinating incidents and places to go visit - but as a destination for emigration, it has some problems!
Quotes to Explore
-
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
-
Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
-
I've actually done a lot of comedy.
-
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
-
When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.
-
I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
-
I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.
-
Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.
-
But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
-
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
-
I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
-
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
-
You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
-
An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.
-
I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.
-
Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
-
With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
-
You talk all the time about being connected, being a unit, believing in each other. But if you have unnamed sources, people out there cutting you down, and then you find out it's the person calling the plays - that would be really hard to deal with, to look at him the same way.
-
I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.
-
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
-
We welcome the scrutiny of the world - because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.
-
There's so much in American history that has been hidden and shunned.
-
History is another country and might be full of fascinating incidents and places to go visit - but as a destination for emigration, it has some problems!
