Simon Winchester Quotes

Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

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• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Change

• I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Love
  • Art
  • Philosophy

• When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Wish
  • Study

• The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Way
  • Government
  • Tyranny

• 'If you are to be so emotionally wounded when you are bested in battle, then perhaps you would do well to hone your skills.' -Artemis Entreri

  

  R. A. Salvatore

• Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Hope
  • Mercy

• Pleasant, a steed in a leather halter; Also pleasant, alliance with a king. Pleasant, the hero that destroys not the yielding; Also pleasant, the splendid Cymraec language.

  

  Taliesin
  • King
  • Hero

• Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Knowledge

• When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • She

• If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Immigration

• Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

  

  Carolina Herrera

• There have been times when I have goofed up, and like every adolescent, I sometimes did get led the wrong way. I would come back home really scared to face my mom's wrath and anger, but surprisingly, I never got to face one. She would always tell me in a very nice manner that what I did was wrong and that I should correct myself.

  

  Karan Patel
  • Up
  • Home
  • She

• My mom would walk through a fire pit for me, and I'd do the same for her.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Mom
  • Fire

• You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • Support

• There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.

  

  Amir Butler
  • Freedom
  • Desire
  • Doubt

• What I'm interested in is the conversations going on about the Anthropocene and what it means to view ourselves as a part of Earth's geological history.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • History
  • Earth

• Elizabeth Taylor taught me that if you do your hair and makeup first then take a hot bath right before you leave, it brings out your inner glow and takes away the powdery look from makeup. I do that right before every date.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Writing
  • Success
  • Marketing

• If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Believe
  • Society

• To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

• I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

  

  Cory Booker
  • World
  • Believe
  • Faith

• Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

  

  Simon Winchester
  • Earth
  • Stable
  • Flux