William Gibson Quotes

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination.

William Gibson

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• I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Audience

• Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Great
  • Man
  • First

• I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Having Fun

• I think I'm just a comedian who's a pretty good con man, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Time
  • Good
  • Pretty

• On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Year
  • Priority
  • Average

• Indian food is a luxury on tour.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Food
  • Luxury
  • Tour

• I got the big BMW X5, and I didn't like it. It was just too big, and I didn't feel comfortable driving it. It was taking up too much room, and I was afraid I was going to smash into something.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Driving

• Capitals accumulate faster than the population; thus wages; thus population; thus grain prices; thus the difficulty of production and hence the exchange values.

  

  Karl Marx

• It was at this point - the necessity of striking down monopoly - that came the parting of their ways. Here the road forked. They found that they must turn either to the right or to the left, - follow either the path of Authority or the path of Liberty. Marx went one way; Warren and Proudhon the other. Thus were born State Socialism and Anarchism.

  

  Benjamin Tucker
  • Road
  • Path

• I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper air-planes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart. Dare to Dream by One Direction, 1

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Girl

• As soon as my foot is in the light onstage, I am home. It is what I love to do. It is what I have always loved to do.

  

  Polly Bergen
  • Home
  • Light

• The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Life

• Most actors are very grateful for what is as opposed to what will be. You spend 98% of your time looking for a job, so when you get it, it's fantastic.

  

  Brian d'Arcy James
  • Time
  • Job

• Since I've become a mom, I'm more about comfort and simplicity. I'm essentially a jeans girl, and I dress them up or down with accessories.

  

  Jessalyn Gilsig
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Mom

• When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

  

  Dario Argento
  • Mind

• It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

  

  Adnan Pachachi
  • Question
  • Army

• I aim to combine all the things I do in a comprehensive and holistic fashion that benefits startups and the people who make them grow.

  

  Dave McClure
  • People
  • Fashion

• The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Achievement

• I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they're iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don't think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• Another simple and powerful way to dissolve problems is not to dwell upon the outcome of your actions. Instead, learn to value each action (no matter how small or large), to do it with complete attention. Your joy and satisfaction comes from doing each action with a whole heart and mind. Results and consequences then take care of themselves. When you are not absorbed by concern for outcomes, how much anxiety can you ever have?

  

  Brenda Shoshanna
  • Attention
  • Learn
  • Problems

• I don't know if any specific religion is the one to subscribe to. I'm not saying, one way or the other. I don't want to get involved in that. But, I think having faith in this experience we are having as a group of people on Earth helps a lot.

  

  Zal Batmanglij
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.

  

  David Bowie
  • Insanity
  • Madmen
  • Roaming

• Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination.

  

  William Gibson
  • Hallucinations
  • Cyberspace