Scott Westerfeld Quotes
The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.Scott Westerfeld
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
Nancy Greene -
My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
Raf Simons -
Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
Ira Glass -
We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
Kate Millett -
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde -
I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.
Yahoo Serious -
What makes us Americans is something more than just the circumstances of birth, what we look like, what God we worship, but rather it is a joyful spirit of citizenship. Citizenship demands participation and responsibility, and service to our country and to one another. And few embody that more than our men and women in uniform.
Barack Obama -
Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.
Chuck Noll
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They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.
Christopher Walken -
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
Charles Eames -
The stuff I did in 'Rescue Me' was great. It gave me the opportunity to play comedy, and Denis Leary was the first one to take a chance with me. And from that experience, we had a comedy pilot that we did that I was going to play the lead in. And then 'Person of Interest' came along. They're all new experiences.
Kevin Chapman -
The world wants India to remain an import-based economy. Then India can be a dumping ground where gold can be dumped and other commodities such as oil and gas. They look at India as a huge market.
Anil Agarwal -
What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed.
Brooke Shields -
'Democratic socialism' is awful as a slogan and catastrophic as a policy. And 'social democracy' - a term that better fits the belief of more ordinary liberals who want, say, Medicare for all - is a politically dying force. Democrats who aren't yet sick of all their losing should feel free to embrace them both.
Bret Stephens
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President George Bush made the U.S. absolutely the leader, between its own PEPFAR, and it's been by far the biggest Global Fund donor. That's a legacy.
Bill Gates -
Numbers are the most certain things we have.
Andy Rooney -
Some venues are more intimidating than others, but as professional players you enjoy the intimidating places more than the other kind.
Ben Morgan -
I'd hate to see new housing building accelerating while taking down buildings where there's 50 people living in rent-stabilized apartments.
Eric Garcetti -
I felt like, by the end of the week in the U.S. Amateur, I was never aiming at a flag; I was just hitting it at slopes and just letting the natural contours take over.
Peter Uihlein -
The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.
Scott Westerfeld