William Gibson Quotes
Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.
Quotes to Explore
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
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I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.
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I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.
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I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.
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We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
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Learning what you don't want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you want to do.
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I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's.
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Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.
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You don't know what will happen from one minute to the next.
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Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.
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Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded.
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No matter how successful you've been in the past the question is what's your next miracle.
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If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?
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Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.
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Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.
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Hermione, will you please —” “Don’t you tell me what to do, Harry Potter!” she screeched. “Don’t you dare! Give it back now! And YOU!” She was pointing at Ron in dire accusation: It was like a malediction, and Harry could not blame Ron for retreating several steps.
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Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.
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The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.
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Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.
