Erno Rubik Quotes

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

Erno Rubik

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• Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • People
  • Think
  • Escape

• People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Experience
  • Night

• You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • You
  • Without

• I often feel like I could fall off the face of the Earth. As long as 'Mama' was around, nobody would really miss me. People really think of her as an actual person. People all the time see me and ask, 'Where's Mama?' Like she should be with me.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Age
  • Opportunity
  • Day

• If you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Small

• Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man...

  

  Edmund White

• Indeed, there is no evidence to suggest innate morality. It is therefore important to create the conditions under which the expansion of our moral communities may become more likely.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Important
  • May
  • Moral

• I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove it'. I am pretty much the other way that pretty much anything can exist unless you can disprove it.

  

  Anthony Head
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Popular

• You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • May
  • Science
  • Progress

• But I must own that I am much in the Dark about Light. I am not satisfy'd with the doctrine that supposes particles of matter call'd light continually driven off from the Sun's Surface, with a Swiftness so prodigious!

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Sun

• Of course, success takes you where your character can't sustain you.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Character
  • Success

• And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • World
  • Work

• I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • World
  • Work
  • Writing

• When you hear you're going to audition for 'Dogfight,' the show about bringing ugly women to parties, you're like, 'Oh, great, thank you.' Then you read lines where people call you fat, and you call yourself fat or ugly, and it can wear on you. But that's also our dream as actors, to play someone else and give someone else a voice.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• Going into Portland, I was just trying to not step on anybody's toes, stay quiet, and play my game. I think I was just trying to figure out the kind of sequences I was going to see as a hitter and learn from that.

  

  Andrew Benintendi
  • Trying
  • Game

• I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.

  

  Peaches Geldof
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Wife

• I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

  

  Janis Ian
  • Time

• Pope John Paul II was fascinated by the United States. And I think he was initially surprised at the vigor of the Catholic Church in the United States. Maybe some of the press that we had gotten he found wasn't true. No, I think he suspected the church in the United States. Did he challenge us to some things? Sure, he did. But, no, I always - I think there was a good alliance. There was a good gel there.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • True

• Every once in a while, there comes a story. A story that blows your mind. One where you know you've made a difference. That's what makes it all worthwhile. That and the anticipation. It's addictive, because you never know when it will happen, but when it does, nothing in the world is as important.

  

  Edna Buchanan
  • Important
  • Story
  • Difference

• Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well.

  

  Michael York
  • Genius
  • Roles
  • Comic

• Interactivity is a big part of video games, which have been a big part of entertainment for 20 years. That's what we think of as a 'lean-forward' type of entertainment. It's much more intense. But TV is more of a 'lean-back' entertainment - so the big improvement there is on-demand, because it conforms to your schedule.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Improvement
  • Entertainment
  • Demand

• I did not plan to make the Cube.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Plan
  • Cube

• The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Improvement
  • Imitation
  • Cube