Bill Nye Quotes

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

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• If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Ego
  • Trophies

• Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Childhood
  • Early

• I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.

  

  Valerie June
  • Live
  • Like
  • Afraid

• Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long
  • Power
  • Often

• Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Work
  • May
  • Power

• I have always been involved in my school's music program.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • School
  • Always

• At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Actress
  • Vengeance
  • Phased

• There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Good
  • Men
  • Discipline

• Growing up in New York City, my car culture is minimal. I rode on the train, the bus. I walked; I rode my bike, and when I was younger, I rode my skateboard.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Growing

• A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Health
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• The skies they were ashen and sober;The leaves they were crisped and sere - The leaves they were withering and sere;It was night in the lonesome OctoberOf my most immemorial year.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Night

• My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity-of the wonder of innumerable forms of life-has always thrilled me beyond anything else.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Life
  • Great
  • History

• Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • God

• In the constitution of that rational animal I see no virtue which is opposed to justice, but I see a virtue which is opposed to love of pleasure, and that is temperance.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Justice
  • Animal

• You never compromise with violence. You never compromise with intimidation. You never compromise by those who want to use those to extinguish freedom and democracy, because if you do then the very things for which you stand are extinguished.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Violence

• Apocatastasis. What it means: 1) Restoration, re-establishment, renovation 2) Return to a previous condition 3) (Astronomy) Return to the same apparent position, completion of a period of revolution. Think about it.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Period
  • Revolution

• Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

  

  Artur Schnabel

• People love conspiracy theories.

  

  Neil Armstrong
  • People

• I had the traditional print view of TV journalists: Those are pretty people who get paid a lot of money and don't do any work. It turned out I was wrong.

  

  John King
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• Where my comedy really solidified was when Bush was elected. I couldn't understand how craven and crass he was, and how dumb other people were for electing him.

  

  David Cross
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Dumb

• I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful.

  

  Samuel R. Delany
  • Powerful
  • Servants
  • Graces

• I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

  

  Bill Nye