William Gibson Quotes

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

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• Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Die

• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• A new untruth is better than an old truth.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Better
  • Truth Is

• At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • College
  • Passion
  • Risk

• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

  

  Banksy
  • Money
  • Art
  • Guy

• I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Idea
  • Something
  • Begin

• I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Time
  • Game
  • Day

• Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Men
  • Waiting

• The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• I get bored easily.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Bored
  • Get
  • Easily

• I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Live
  • Like

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • People
  • Government
  • Lies

• I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • American

• When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Country
  • Man
  • WIld

• We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Bus
  • Foreman
  • Grill

• I think people thought I was crazy for leaving Mexico when I had any project I wanted falling at my feet. But I risked everything to come to Los Angeles, where no one knew who I was, and start all over again. It was a very hard step to take. However, it was the moment I thought it was right to take a risk in my career.

  

  Karla Souza
  • People
  • Career
  • Crazy

• What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

  

  John Connolly
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Good
  • Opinion
  • Alcohol

• Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know the truth; in helping others we help ourselves; and in hurting others we hurt ourselves. Character overshadows money, and trust rises above fame. Honesty is still the best policy.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Money
  • Character
  • Truth

• ... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Lover
  • Mistress
  • Passed

• It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

  

  William Gibson
  • Moving
  • Leaving
  • Impossible