John Carmack Quotes

I've said before that I'm a remarkably unsentimental person.

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• A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Meaningful
  • Optimistic
  • Narrative

• I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Crime
  • Fiction
  • Lewis

• When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Picture

• I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Giving

• Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Salad

• It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • First
  • Iran
  • Table

• There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Experience

• People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • People
  • Win
  • Sick

• Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Live
  • Back
  • Intention

• The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.

  

  Harold Stephen Black
  • Daily
  • Page
  • Newspaper

• The stress and turmoil that my father had to go through at a young age to make sure that I didn't have the same trials and tribulations, I couldn't be more grateful.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Age
  • Father
  • Stress

• I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Saying

• Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Character
  • History
  • Stage

• It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Money
  • House
  • Problem

• I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

  

  Pam Gems
  • World
  • Heaven
  • Woman

• I don't believe in hatred anymore. I hate to think of how it felt before When anger overwhelms your very soul It's hard to realize you'll ever knowLove like we do.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Hate

• Having faith in God means trusting in Him even when everything inside of you wants to take control.

  

  Dan Ellis
  • God
  • Control
  • Everything

• I don't compare tournaments.

  

  Neymar

• The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people's cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, you feel impacted by not having it. It's an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • People
  • Important
  • Home

• Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Game

• As a young girl, I definitely struggled with knowing what to do with my hair. I was just in a neighborhood that had mostly white people, and the hair norm was long and sleek and straight. My hair naturally was curly, and I didn't have that many references.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • People
  • Long
  • Girl

• I've said before that I'm a remarkably unsentimental person.

  

  John Carmack