Scott Turow Quotes
Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.
Quotes to Explore
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story.
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Imagine how differently American business would function were our faith in the power of goodness to replace our faith in the power of money. Huge industries would no longer make billions of dollars on activities that diminish the well-being and safety of our children, our health, and our environment, on the pretext that it's "just business." To put money before goodness is idolatry, and the laws of the universe ensure that in the end all idols will fall.
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If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else.
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Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.
