Steven Spielberg Quotes

Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.

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• I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Time
  • Job
  • Fun

• I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to 'Read my hips!' on 'Dancing With the Stars' or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on 'Seinfeld.'

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Why

• Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Earth
  • Culture
  • Heaven

• A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

  

  Aristotle
  • Democracy
  • Oligarchy
  • Supplanted

• The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that.

  

  Scott Ritter
  • World
  • Trying
  • Dangerous

• It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Women
  • Marriage
  • Possession

• Spring, you are a pinking shears: you cut fresh edges on the world.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Spring
  • Shears

• Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Fashion
  • Water
  • Wood

• Who do we think we are — we small creatures with three-pound brains, a few limited senses, and life spans barely long enough to get to know our neighborhood, much less the planet, and much less the galaxy, and much less the universe, and much less still its creator! Who do we think we are to be able to define or even describe the creator of DNA, galaxies, dust mites, blue whales, the carbon cycle, light, and a billion other realities we have no notion about whatsoever, no awareness of at all?

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Life
  • Creature
  • Neighborhood

• I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

  

  Michael Behe
  • Support
  • Common
  • Evidence

• My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

  

  Mitch Leigh
  • Always
  • Advice
  • Singers

• The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

  

  Havelock Ellis
  • Optimism
  • Lunatic asylum

• I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Math

• The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Character
  • Hero
  • Scripture

• Today, you have achieved something special, something only 92 percent of Americans your age will ever know: a college diploma. That’s right, with your college diploma you now have a crushing advantage over 8 percent of the workforce. I'm talking about dropout losers like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Age
  • Today
  • College

• The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • People
  • Change
  • Inventor

• If he Thomas Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Search
  • Labor
  • Calculation

• I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Music
  • Like
  • Listening

• Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Inventor
  • Steve Jobs
  • Thomas Edison