Charles Stross Quotes
'Democracy 2.0.' He shudders briefly. 'I’m not sure about the validity of voting projects at all, these days. The assumption that all people are of equal importance seems frighteningly obsolescent.'
Charles Stross
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
N. Murray Edwards
All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
Park Chan-wook
Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
Magdi Yacoub
A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
Vera Wang
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
Salman Rushdie
A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
Lana Del Rey
Death is the beginning of something.
Edith Piaf
If you’re going through a dark time... don’t ever give up. You can always make your way back to the other end of that circle and find your happiness again.
Lady Gaga
for never yet
Has lover lived, but longed to wive
Like them that are no more alive.
William Butler Yeats
Now that I was surrounded by admiration, I could admit without uneasiness that talking to her incited ideas, pushed me to make connections between distant things. In those years of being neighbors, I on the floor above, she below, it often happened. A slight push was enough and the seemingly empty mind discovered that it was full and lively. I attributed to her a sort of farsightedness, as I had all our lives, and I found nothing wrong with it. I said to myself that to be adult was to recognize that I needed her impulses. If once I had hidden, even from myself, that spark she induced in me, now I was proud of it, I had even written about it somewhere. I was I and for that very reason I could make space for her in me and give her an enduring form. She instead didn’t want to be her, so she couldn’t do the same. That was the underlying cause of the illness that she called “dissolving boundaries.
Elena Ferrante
That movie - 'Airplane!' - it influenced so many of us.
Jay Chandrasekhar
'Democracy 2.0.' He shudders briefly. 'I’m not sure about the validity of voting projects at all, these days. The assumption that all people are of equal importance seems frighteningly obsolescent.'
Charles Stross