Charles Stross Quotes
A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls.Charles Stross
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
Zach Anner -
I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
Malala Yousafzai -
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan -
When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
Sally Phillips -
Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
Cameron Winklevoss
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
Adam McKay -
Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
Dan Quayle -
Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
Raf Simons -
But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
Gay Talese -
I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
R. Kelly
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
Daniel Bryan -
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Jackie Collins -
Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
Obie Trice -
Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
Karl Shapiro -
ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.
Hamza Yusuf -
Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
Orhan Pamuk
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After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.
Bill Nye -
Painting: Once upon a time a painting was a two-dimensional representation; now it is anything its author thinks is appropriate.
Peter Greenaway -
For me, as a woman in one of the less diverse fields - electrical engineering, which is what I studied in college - it was hard to persist and really build a career. Some of the things I experienced were really scary, and they weren't experiences that I wanted for my daughter.
Kimberly Bryant -
Grills are how to achieve a great flavor on meats and vegetables. They bring people together. The smell of them getting started is therapeutic.
Evan Ingersoll -
There's a lot of crazy, weird people out there. It's an ugly world.
Ben Affleck -
A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls.
Charles Stross