James Gleick Quotes

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

James Gleick

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• There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • God
  • Right

• My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Dad
  • Two
  • Ever

• I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • People
  • Secret
  • Somebody

• Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Me
  • Successful
  • Chess

• I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Father
  • Think

• I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Doing

• For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Rest

• Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Jump

• The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Giving
  • Listening
  • Unique

• There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Pain
  • Consciousness
  • Birth

• My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Years
  • First
  • Fruit

• We play tag and kickball almost every day. It's one of the ways that I've figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Fun

• Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Long
  • Understand

• Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Football
  • Baseball
  • Basketball

• I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Want
  • Travel
  • I Can

• You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Power
  • Successful
  • Ignore

• It was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet like the strong and refined essence of a continent... The views were immensely wide - everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequalled nobility.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Freedom

• The history of man is a compendium of such evil. We are an evolutionary product, descendants of predators. A few synthetic foods aside, every morsel eaten by man is taken from another living thing. We are intended for murder; we kill to exist!

  

  Jack Vance
  • History
  • Taken
  • Evil

• I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times and under all circumstances.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Life
  • History
  • Quality

• I feel like that when I read certain feminist blogs or feminist magazines, where it's not even so much we've gone backwards, it's that I'm bored. Or it's like, oh wow, kids today are still dealing with the same exact issues.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Kids
  • Today
  • Bored

• I believe that conservative solutions can help families of every race, every economic background, and every town in Oklahoma.

  

  James Lankford
  • Believe
  • Help

• There's no doubt: The iPad is a beautiful, extremely well-designed device.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Beautiful
  • Doubt

• Between what is going on in Iraq and Mumia being locked up unjustly, things going on in Israel, Palestine, we don't really have anyone right now like Gandhi. We don't have anyone like Martin Luther King or Malcolm X anymore. It's really a reference to a vision of hope, like someone like Gandhi.

  

  Vincenzo Luvineri Army of the Pharaohs
  • Vision
  • Palestine
  • Luther

• The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

  

  James Gleick