Charles Stross Quotes

You got overdraft at the mythology bank.

Charles Stross

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• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Experience
  • Compassion

• As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

  

  Karl Rove
  • People
  • Good
  • Education

• I never wanted to return to Hollywood because Hollywood people and the fakeness - very artificial and not dear to my heart. After I lived in the Midwest, and I learned what sincere, real people were all about, I never wanted to go back.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • People
  • Real
  • Heart

• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • Time
  • God
  • Success

• Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Better

• I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Focus
  • Woman

• The question is, What type of human do I want to be? How do I want to use my platform? Do I want to be safe, under the umbrella of my white privilege? Or do I want to push back and resist?

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Want
  • Question
  • White

• I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Good
  • Think
  • Career

• The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Remember
  • Beauty

• I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Seriously

• I'm not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even buy it, and then it never gets worn. It just seems like kind of a wasted middle step. Either you're dressed or you're not. What is this in-between stuff?

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Appreciate

• The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Start
  • Battles

• So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Light

• I play. But this is what I think.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• A prime time to catch yourself putting on your personality is in the moments between sleeping and waking.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Personality

• Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Great
  • Important
  • Science

• All of my friends on the street we're Jewish. I went to a lot of bar and bat mitzvahs. I even learned a little Hebrew.

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • Friends

• If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

  

  Harvey S. Firestone
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Asset

• Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

  

  Hadewijch
  • God

• My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Observation

• You got overdraft at the mythology bank.

  

  Charles Stross