Frank Tipler Quotes
If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall live again.'
Quotes to Explore
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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No two wars are identical.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
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Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.
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As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.
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Us three brothers - me, Janis, and Martins - we made a bet. We all sat down and said we were going to grow our hair out. But after a month or two, they cut their hair. But I was too young to make the decision about whether I would get a haircut, so mine just kept growing. And it was so long that I decided I should start rocking those cornrows.
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He supposes they pretty much have the picture. Most people do, in life. People know more than they let on.
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Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall live again.'
