James P. Hogan Quotes

Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us, ZORAC announced after a short pause. The designs are not familiar, but they are obviously the products of intelligence. Implications: we have been intercepted deliberately by a means unknown, for a purpose unknown, and transferred to a place unknown by a form of intelligence unknown. Apart from the unknowns, everything is obvious.

James P. Hogan

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• There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Money
  • Will

• Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Think
  • You
  • Internet

• Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Women
  • Marriage
  • Necessarily

• It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

  

  Mae West
  • Better
  • Over
  • Overlooked

• I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Time
  • Great
  • Character

• There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • God
  • Done

• I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Teacher

• How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead enough to justify that decision? What is she doing instead, and why can't she be better at it? What's keeping her from getting a better overall existence score in comparison to an arbitrary sampling of other human beings?

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Why
  • She
  • Decision

• In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Industry
  • Union
  • Soviet

• Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me.

  

  Kyra Sedgwick
  • Fear
  • Interesting
  • Choices

• I got to travel around Anbar Province, had a great group of Marines who worked for me who traveled around Anbar Province. I got to hang out with a lot of different types of Marines and soldiers and sailors.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Great
  • Different
  • Travel

• It's really easy to give in to, 'I want to raise my kids,' 'I want to be the best mom, so I have to give up my dreams.' I don't believe that. I think, if anything, being a living example to your children is beautiful.

  

  Andrea Navedo
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Children

• I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Family

• School, for me, was a really, genuinely hard thing. It was hard because l am an artist. You can't send an artist to a place where we learn at a mad slow pace sitting in a class.

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • School
  • Mad

• Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Work
  • God
  • Tired

• There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.

  

  Konrad Lorenz

• I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

  

  Johann Heinrich Lambert
  • Mind

• So it just wasn't in my house. Anywhere, I looked like I knew about the toilet.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • House
  • Toilets

• And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Family
  • Man
  • Law

• It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.

  

  William Styron
  • People
  • Writing
  • Scared

• Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Secret
  • Said
  • Involved

• Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea - is a very old form of graphic communication. It began with the hieroglyphics in Egypt, it first appeared in a recognizable form in the Medieval times as copper plates produced by the Catholic church to tell morality stories.

  

  Will Eisner
  • Church
  • Idea
  • Stories

• Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us, ZORAC announced after a short pause. The designs are not familiar, but they are obviously the products of intelligence. Implications: we have been intercepted deliberately by a means unknown, for a purpose unknown, and transferred to a place unknown by a form of intelligence unknown. Apart from the unknowns, everything is obvious.

  

  James P. Hogan
  • Construction
  • Artificial
  • Pause