Nigel Kneale Quotes

What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?

Nigel Kneale

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• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Tired

• Being happy is very important. We won our second championship last season and we have our entire team coming back to try and defend our title again. I'm very proud of that.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Team

• Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • True
  • Ideas
  • New

• Without the foundation of law, this vast country could never have survived as one, could never have absorbed streams of immigrants from myriad cultures. With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • Country
  • America
  • War

• In the world of crime novels, the annual Audible Sounds of Crime awards are a pretty big deal, and I was thrilled to be shortlisted for my fifth novel in my bestselling Nic Costa series.

  

  David Hewson
  • World
  • Pretty

• It's okay if you get rejected 20, 30 or 200 times... You don't need everyone to like your story - you just need one person who really likes your story.

  

  Ken Liu

• The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
  • Time
  • High
  • Prom

• People flash back to pictures of me when I was 12 and say 'Kylie's so different,' but how can I look the same from 12 -18?

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • People
  • Different

• I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Hope

• I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed.

  

  Jody Watley Shalamar
  • Music
  • Doubt

• Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

  

  Avi
  • Music
  • Help
  • Science

• President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.

  

  David Letterman
  • Thinking
  • American
  • War

• I'm really excited about public libraries that are redefining themselves as free learning centers.

  

  Mark Duplass
  • Free
  • Learning

• I really want to play in Chelsea.

  

  Alexandre Pato

• The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

  

  Berthold Auerbach
  • Work

• I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don't mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Time

• The Compton I knew was from my mother, and it was beautiful. It was this close-knit community, and people cared about one another, and it was safe.

  

  Aja Brown
  • People
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

  

  Max Stirner
  • School
  • Heart
  • Age

• The vice presidential candidate does not usually make much difference at the polls. But that may be changing as voters become more aware that the understudy must be ready to take over if needed.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • May
  • Difference
  • Presidential

• What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?

  

  Nigel Kneale