G. Harry Stine Quotes
Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.
Quotes to Explore
-
I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
-
I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
-
I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
-
Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
-
I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
-
Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
-
Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
-
It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
-
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
-
I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
-
My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
-
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
-
I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
-
The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
-
A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.
-
I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
-
When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
-
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
-
I do see the world as being different for girls - especially now, having daughters.
-
It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
-
I know that I am not owed the right to make movies. I know God has given me this privileged position, and I have to work dog-hard as an actor to make the films the best they can be.
-
The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.
-
Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.
