Vernor Vinge Quotes
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren’t noticed at all-no one’s around to write horror stories.Vernor Vinge
Quotes to Explore
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
Lao Tzu -
I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
Ingvar Kamprad -
Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
Zach Wamp -
When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer sidewalks, and almost no street signs, mailboxes, or leashed dogs.
Ian Frazier -
I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.
Queen Latifah -
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
Orville Wright
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The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
Dalton Trumbo -
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu -
The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
Famke Janssen -
Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
Beau Bridges -
I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
Marat Safin -
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
Abraham Robinson
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It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
For my part, he was God's candidate.
Basil Hume -
It all began with the three wise men, followed a star took them to Bethelehem, and made it heard throughout the land - born was the leader of man. All going down to see the Lord Jesus.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
I know for a fact that we're not pushed or promoted to speak about God with fervor.
Chance The Rapper -
The scene where I took my eyelashes off we did in two takes.
Marie Windsor -
I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott.
Duncan Jones
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Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.
George Phillips Bond -
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.
Daniel Kahneman -
Islam believes that Jesus is a prophet, and they honour him - highly - and they respect him, and they follow his teachings. So, for me, as somebody who was raised Muslim, it is an honour to actually play Jesus, just because of that.
Haaz Sleiman -
How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.
Joanna Scott -
Learning is the engine of practice, and practice is the history of that learning.
Etienne Wenger -
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren’t noticed at all-no one’s around to write horror stories.
Vernor Vinge