William Gibson Quotes
I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
Quotes to Explore
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
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By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.
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If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful.
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If you're driving down the street, you keep the neck forward. So that way you can clear out the lanes.
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In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.
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The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.
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I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
