Esther Dyson Quotes

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.

Esther Dyson

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• American
• Shows
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• Russians

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• Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Me
  • Collection

• From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Look
  • Down
  • Heights

• My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Bring

• The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Health

• I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Model

• Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Art
  • Age
  • Child

• I'm not a car person. Three years after 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, 'Why don't you have a Maserati?' It never occurred to me. It wasn't a priority for me. I just didn't care.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Why
  • Me

• Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Funny

• I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Doing
  • Loved
  • Homeland

• What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Use
  • Box

• Our company is very diversified, both in terms of geography and in terms of products.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Company
  • Very
  • Geography

• In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

  

  Gale Norton
  • People
  • Always
  • Effort

• There is such a thing as Literary Fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Fashion

• A satellite has no conscience.

  

  Edward R. Murrow

• Mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience; all else is remote inference.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Mind
  • Experience

• Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: 'There he is again. It's Fabian.' It's a very tough thing. Everybody wants to discount your talent because you have become so... I don't know... a god, if you will.

  

  David Cassidy
  • People
  • God
  • Teen

• I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself.

  

  Jennifer Morrison
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • People
  • Money
  • Remember

• I spend way more than I should...and way less than I want.

  

  Nan Kempner
  • Want
  • Way
  • Should

• I charm in vain; for never again, All keenly as my glance I bend, Will Memory, goddess coy, Embody for my joy Departed days, nor let me gaze On thee, my fairy friend!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Friend
  • Joy
  • Goddess

• And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Money
  • American
  • Shows