William Gibson Quotes

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

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• You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Push

• Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • World
  • Great
  • Song

• I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Work
  • Want
  • Me

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • People
  • Free
  • Speech

• My partner has to have good sized bones.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Good
  • Partner
  • Bones

• I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Children
  • City
  • Child

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Important
  • Transportation

• I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Work
  • Real
  • Fear

• Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Athletes

• I never met a kid I liked.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Met

• Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Why
  • You
  • Look

• On 'Chatroom,' everyone was so nice, and we had a really great time together; we were around the same age and got on really well.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Time
  • Great
  • Together

• Like so many women, especially military women, I waited to have children.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • Children
  • Military

• I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Question
  • Always
  • Trouble

• Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Different
  • Country
  • Energy

• I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Experience
  • Perfect
  • Learning

• When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Suffering

• It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Real
  • Day

• Sometimes the assumptions we make about others come not from what we have been told or what we have seen on television or in books, but rather rom what we have not been told. The distortion of historical information about people of color leads young people (and older people to) to make assumptions that may go unchallenged for a long time.

  

  Beverly Daniel Tatum
  • Books
  • Information
  • Television

• While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

  

  David Antin
  • Great
  • Music
  • Song

• The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

  

  William Gibson
  • Color
  • Sky
  • Television