Philip K. Dick Quotes
Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small...and you will escape the jealousy of the great.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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Because fossil fuels are not only a finite resource but hazardous to the environment, it is imperative that we diversify the resources used in generating electricity.
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I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles.
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The advice I like to give to drummers is that there's no right or wrong way of playing the drums. I think the drumming community can be very antiquated and very stuck in the past of, like, this Neil Peart style, technical Guitar Center drum video kind of approach. That you need to have played for 15 years before you ever do anything worthwhile.
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Every actor starts out saying, 'I can play anything in the world: I'm only 25, but I can be a man 70 years old. I'll put on a gray wig and do it.' But nobody hires you for that. You have to play yourself on the screen.
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Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
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Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small...and you will escape the jealousy of the great.
