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

• Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Up
  • Power
  • Growing

• 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

• My wind is turned to bitter north,That was so soft a south before;My sky, that shone so sunny bright,With foggy gloom is clouded o’erMy gay green leaves are yellow-black,Upon the dank autumnal floor;For love, departed once, comes backNo more again, no more.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Black
  • Gay
  • Wind

• I have a song called 'I Don't Even Know Your Name' which I think is going to be well liked across the board.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Song

• The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Time
  • Nature

• Schlepping around from city to city is nothing I want to do.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • City

• People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • People
  • Gay
  • Paint

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

  

  William Gibson
  • Color
  • Sky
  • Television