Erno Rubik Quotes

I'm glad the Cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm.

Erno Rubik

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• The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Why
  • Democracy

• I sometimes wonder if I pushed myself to get out there and meet people I'd get more work.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Mind
  • Law
  • Wonder

• When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you say something funny. You wonder if they're looking at you because they're mad that they didn't say it or something. It's hard to handle that.

  

  Jason Sudeikis
  • Funny
  • Wonder
  • Mad

• President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

  

  Fred Barnes
  • Guy
  • Free
  • Wonder

• I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

  

  David Mamet
  • Political
  • Wonder
  • Exercise

• I love Radiohead, which most people don't expect, and I listen to everything from Stevie Wonder to Steely Dan, Carole King, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, Beyonce Knowles, Vampire Weekend, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Burt Bacharach, and Paul Simon.

  

  Eliza Doolittle
  • People
  • Wonder
  • King

• I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.

  

  Marilyn Hacker
  • Up
  • Writing
  • American

• Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

  

  Donald E. Westlake
  • Up
  • God
  • Wonder

• I understand that fictional men aren't real. Not 'really real'. I know this the same way I wonder if my readers are disappointed when they meet me.

  

  Margaret Stohl
  • Men
  • Real
  • Wonder

• Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.

  

  Fred Thompson
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Wonder

• I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.

  

  Kenneth Koch
  • Friends
  • Wife
  • Wonder

• There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • People
  • Wonder

• I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• The concept of peaceful coexistence has been criticized by many who do not see the need to make the world safe for diversity. I wonder if they have ever paused to ask themselves the question: What is the alternative to coexistence?

  

  U Thant
  • World
  • Question
  • Wonder

• Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Great
  • Heart

• Since the cruel killing of cows and other animal have commenced, I have anxiety for the future generation.

  

  Lala Lajpat Rai
  • Future
  • Animal
  • Anxiety

• Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Mean
  • Wonder
  • Struggle

• A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Big

• How fortunate we didn't have these animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably not have been granted a licence, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realised.

  

  Alexander Fleming
  • Animal

• My salary swings an unbelievable amount. When I had Holly, I took seven months off, so my salary was very low. It fluctuates wildly. No one pays you for the period you spend writing. I am certainly not rich.

  

  Deirdre O'Kane
  • Writing
  • Period

• Indeed, even this last moment will be recognized like the rest, at least, be just beginning to be so.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Rest
  • Beginning

• I'm glad the Cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Wonder
  • Generations
  • Enthusiasm