William Gibson Quotes
I'm not the only one: witness Pokemon! They still keep coming up with this stuff that just rivets us in unexpected areas.William Gibson
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
Great French design is often about unexpected touches.
Candice Olson -
This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.
Earl Derr Biggers -
The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
Takeshi Kitano -
'Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.'
Ralph Ellison
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Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest.
Levi Woodbury -
Our family life was certainly not intellectual.
Douglass North -
Tinder is the ultimate gamification of romance. It's 'Pokemon Go' for the heart.
Charlie Brooker -
I love yoga. I don't do it as much as I'd like to, but I feel wonderful when I do.
Lily Cole -
Dislike of another’s opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
John Lancaster Spalding -
Myrnin," she said. "He didn't show up at the rendezvous." "And? Dude's crazy, in case you didn't notice recently. He probally went of the chase butterflys or something.
Rachel Caine
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I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that's always appealed to me. I think there's great value to bearing witness to these events as they're actually happening.
Anderson Cooper -
The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.
Brian Tracy -
There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt -
Can you imagine what that little conversation is going to look like, held in the independent counsel's office, with the people there who have the capacity to put Ms. Lewinsky in jail? ... Can we really say that it's just normal, just OK, to have one side using the might and majesty of the independent counsel's office threatening a witness with violation of an immunity agreement if she doesn't fly across the country for this little chat? I think not.
Charles Ruff -
I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is.
Tom Stoppard -
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
Demosthenes
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
John Maynard Keynes -
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
Seamus Heaney -
A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
Roy Blount, Jr. -
I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.
George Will -
I'm not the only one: witness Pokemon! They still keep coming up with this stuff that just rivets us in unexpected areas.
William Gibson