Nalini Singh Quotes
Sophia got up, taking one last look at the extraordinary daughter Councilor Nikita Duncan had borne.
Quotes to Explore
-
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
-
We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
-
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
-
We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
-
When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
-
The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
-
I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
-
Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
-
In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
-
From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.
-
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
-
I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
-
The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
-
I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
-
Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
-
When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
Gail Devers -
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
-
I only know what I read in the papers.
-
When I wrote 'The Rozabal Line,' I had no preconceived notions of what a commercial bestseller should be. I have always viewed 'The Rozabal Line' as my first love and probably my best work. The fact, however, is that it is my least read work.
-
Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
-
Every time you're on stage, you look out at a packed house, people all the way up to the top, people having a blast, everybody forgetting about the world for a couple hours. That's a special thing.
-
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
-
Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.
-
Sophia got up, taking one last look at the extraordinary daughter Councilor Nikita Duncan had borne.
