Gene Wolfe Quotes
It’s easy-very easy-to slay a ruler. But it’s very difficult to prevent a worse one from coming to his place.
Quotes to Explore
-
Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
-
At age 26, I was chairman of UB Group but living like a 26-year-old. I lived my age. Which youngster doesn't like a Ferrari? Which youngster doesn't like a good time?... but my contemporaries were R. S. Goenka and Dhirubhai Ambani, captains of the industry but twice my age. You wouldn't necessarily expect them to be driving around in Ferraris.
-
I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.
-
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
-
I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
-
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
-
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
-
I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.
-
I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.
-
It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war.
-
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
-
Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
-
Because I wasn't Asian enough- they decided to hire an Asian Consultant. Because I was fucking it up as an Asian. She would follow me around: 'Margaret! Use chopsticks! And when you're done eating, you can put them in your hair. Now you're wearing shoes, which is something we don't do in the house. Now I'm just going to leave this abacus right here...'
-
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
-
The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'
-
When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.
-
I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.
-
When I first started 'Humans of New York,' I was writing short stories. There were about 50 of them. And, you know, they were a great part of the site, but the photography just started growing so fast that I didn't have time to make them anymore.
-
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
-
In the mazes of loitering people, the watchful and furtive,The shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves,In the drowse of the sunlight, among the low voices,I suddenly face you
-
Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.
-
It’s easy-very easy-to slay a ruler. But it’s very difficult to prevent a worse one from coming to his place.
