John Scalzi Quotes

'I didn’t say that,' Szilard said, in a tone that implied that perhaps he had.

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• That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Today
  • Television
  • News

• Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • River
  • Lake
  • Wilderness

• We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Done
  • Religion
  • Revolution

• You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Work
  • Home
  • Happy

• When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Movie
  • High
  • Black

• It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Finish
  • Coach

• When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Chance
  • Look
  • Name

• In Wisconsin, style-wise, it was all about bundling up, maybe wearing a hat and forgetting about your hair.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Style
  • Hair

• It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Effort
  • Human
  • Race

• More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Tears
  • More
  • Over

• He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Love
  • Creator
  • Neighbor

• It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man for the job, may in fact, be a woman, whose biography is not traditional, but is rich with experiences and skills that are not necessarily learned either in school or on the job.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Time
  • Women
  • School

• Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little. Don't proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel.. .One must have only one master – nature; she is the one always be consulted.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Work
  • She
  • Nature

• Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• I do not ask my cross to understandMy way to see:Better in darkness just to feel Thy handAnd follow Thee.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter

• We are socialists. Let us hope that it will not have been in vain.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Hope

• Yet still to choose a brat like you, To haunt a man of forty-two, Was no great compliment!'

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Great

• First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Value

• If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

  

  Kirk Douglas

• It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Simultaneously

• I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Believe
  • Chance
  • Ability

• Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • American
  • Dream
  • Logic

• I kind of viewed '50/ 50' and 'Warm Bodies' both as my next films after 'The Wackness.' In my head, I was just like, 'I'll try the big, fun, adventure-weird movie, and I'll do the small, heartfelt comedy-drama, and one of them will probably work out, and I'll get to work more.'

  

  Jonathan Levine
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Fun

• 'I didn’t say that,' Szilard said, in a tone that implied that perhaps he had.

  

  John Scalzi