William A. Dembski Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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Not everybody should be laughing at everything at the same time. That's not even natural. My thing is to feel natural, because I don't want to feel like I could just make people laugh at every single joke, every single time, with the same decibel level.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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Profiles aren't journalism.
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I love the story of how my parents met because it seems very 1950s Brooklyn. They met on a brownstone stoop as my father was singing a little doo-wop.
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Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.
