Olaf Stapledon Quotes

The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.

Olaf Stapledon

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• If people hate me they hate me.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • People
  • Hate
  • Me

• 'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Girl
  • Movies
  • Favorite

• Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Air
  • Story
  • Tell

• I've failed once or twice real big, independent.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Real
  • Independent
  • Big

• Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Attention
  • Clothes
  • Greatest

• I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren't popular and you don't have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • People
  • Plan
  • Terrorism

• I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Night
  • Feeling
  • Fire

• I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
  • Day
  • Bird

• We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • Power
  • Remember

• The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Mind
  • Crying

• If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• The reason I'm really appreciative of everything that's going on around me is because of the fact that I never expected it, and I want to keep that attitude.

  

  Selena
  • Attitude

• People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • People
  • Business
  • Bird

• To have real issues to delve into, research-wise, always makes it a lot more satisfying to me. I can pull from a lot of resources and put them into my work and just have as much information as possible.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Work
  • Real
  • Wise

• I am not interested when people refer to a quarter or this year because the way I look at a country is what are its prospects over the next 20-30 years, and India's are good.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in their science fiction, robots are seen as good. They have Astro Boy, this character they've fallen in love with and he's fundamentally good, always there to help people.

  

  Cynthia Breazeal
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

  

  Mary MacLane
  • World

• I think it's great when dramatic actors do lighter, funny roles.

  

  Noureen DeWulf
  • Actor
  • Roles
  • Dramatic

• When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Book
  • Science
  • Boy

• There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

  

  John Wooden
  • Time
  • Trust

• A cat doesn't linger over making it's desires felt.

  

  Paul Gallico
  • Cat
  • Desires
  • Linger

• Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; And make us happy in the happy bees, The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Happy
  • Today
  • Night

• The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.

  

  Olaf Stapledon