Charles Stross Quotes

I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.

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• I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• 'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Best

• It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Mankind
  • Lead
  • Microsoft

• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Moment

• You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Goal
  • Leader
  • Yield

• There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Honesty

• All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • World
  • Best
  • Golf

• Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Education
  • Become
  • Activity

• I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Possible
  • Go
  • Fast

• A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Character
  • Deep
  • Reflection

• Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Legacy
  • Publishing
  • Vehicle

• We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Walk

• Siva is one of the best writers in the industry, and 'Srimanthudu' is a great script.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Great
  • Best
  • Industry

• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  

  Questlove
  • Art
  • Business
  • Hip Hop

• I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Son
  • Existence
  • Wealth

• I'm built for whichever scheme they put me in.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Me
  • Put
  • Scheme

• I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Performance
  • Ballet
  • Opera

• I can celebrate food anytime. I love cheese. When I crave a certain food, I just eat it.

  

  Emmanuelle Chriqui
  • Food

• If there was anything her short life had taught her, it was that a person must be tough. Otherwise, you were had.

  

  Katherine Paterson
  • Life

• There's no such thing as perfect people. There's no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God.

  

  Natalie Grant
  • God
  • Perfect
  • Broken

• How convenient for these miscreant informants and the government to suddenly claim years later, when he was about to get out of prison, that he was still in the life, which fell into what is known as a predicate-act time frame,

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Convenient
  • Informants
  • Miscreant

• I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Broken