Poul Anderson Quotes

Over unforced love, the gods themselves had no might.

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• I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Clothes
  • Obsessed

• I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Fun
  • Football
  • Sports

• You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • You
  • Going

• The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Try
  • Last
  • Programmer

• I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Pretty
  • Hell
  • Divided

• I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Aggressive
  • Aspire
  • Shopper

• I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Me
  • Control
  • Loved

• AT&T is interested in anything that drives more bandwidth requirements, and Apple TV drives significant bandwidth, and the iPhone drives significant bandwidth, and so I think it's a very logical fit.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Think
  • Apple
  • iPhone

• What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Life
  • City
  • Quality

• Not only will you be held accountable for the things you do, but you will be held responsible for the very thoughts you think.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • Think
  • You
  • Thoughts

• I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there's nothing like wearing them. You buy them, you study them, and you start to understand how they're crafted.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Think
  • Study
  • Start

• My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Job
  • Tomorrow
  • Performance

• What Men Would Say When Male-Bashing Is Called 'Funny,' But Female-Bashing Is Called 'Sexist'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Funny

• God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • People
  • God
  • Men

• Ma 'l populo facea come i più fanno,Ch'ubbidiscon più a quei che più in odio hanno.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• I'm very fortunate. I loved school and, when I went there, race, gangs and violence were not issues. There was a feeling, gone now, that you had to be presentable. If you hadn't combed your hair, older black ladies - complete strangers - would come up to you in the street and pull out a comb and straighten your tie.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up
  • School
  • Black

• Early on, I had five jobs in a row where I was either fired or canceled.

  

  Matt Lauer

• Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

  

  Lewis Grizzard
  • House

• Writing bores me so.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Writing
  • Bores

• I will tell you whom to vote for: We will vote for the principles of civil and religious liberty, the man who knows the most and who has the best heart and brain for a statesman; and we do not care a farthing whether he is a Whig, a Democrat, a Barnburner, a Republican, or a New Light or anything else.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Brain
  • Liberty
  • Principles

• When you think someone really has the upper hand, you realize that someone has been played the entire time, and there's a whole other layer where you think the person who is doing the playing has also been played.

  

  Brian J. Smith
  • Time
  • Hand

• Over unforced love, the gods themselves had no might.

  

  Poul Anderson