William Gibson Quotes

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

William Gibson

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• I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Want
  • Basketball

• I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

  

  J Mascis
  • Couple
  • Gold
  • Year

• If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Women
  • Done
  • Bridges

• When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Man
  • Care
  • Feelings

• If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Live
  • Age
  • Innocence

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Work
  • Character

• Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Nature

• They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.

  

  Ed Asner
  • People
  • Credit
  • Sheep

• Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Thoughts

• Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute necessity.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Good

• It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Great
  • Adventure

• I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • People

• The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm like, 'This is me. I'm black. Black Lives Matter. Black pride. Look at my cocoa skin.' I just feel it's my being.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Black

• There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.

  

  Amos Lee
  • Music

• Leadership changes, and evolving marketplace conditions can significantly impact business strategy.

  

  Punit Renjen
  • Business
  • Leadership

• My focus is to grow, have fun, and work with people who inspire me, like Philip Seymour Hoffman.

  

  Jesse Plemons
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark it was.

  

  Kate Elliott
  • Struggle
  • Breasts
  • Sharks

• Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.

  

  Stella Benson
  • Autobiography

• I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

  

  David Hockney
  • Dark
  • Enlightenment

• But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.

  

  Bill Sienkiewicz

• For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches of a mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefiled panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness.

  

  Bob Marshall
  • Important
  • Desire
  • Passion

• Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

  

  William Gibson
  • Ends
  • Enlightenment
  • Serenity