John Carmack Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
-
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
-
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
-
I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
-
When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
-
Everyone looks adorable singing with James Corden.
-
I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
-
I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
-
It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
-
I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
-
It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.
-
Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.
-
I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.
-
I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.
-
The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
-
If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.
-
Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.
-
When I'm wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing - she has the sexiest walk, a New York cool thing that throws you back.
-
The 'open' mind of the poet and artist can sense realities beyond the reach of our normal senses. The real problem is that our materialistic assumptions have a number of false premises built into them: it is only when we recognize this that we see there is no sharp dividing line between the everyday world and the invisible world of the clairvoyant.
-
Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.
-
When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
-
Fashion is always uncomfortable. When you get comfortable, you never get the look.
-
Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.