William Gibson Quotes

She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.

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• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
  • Tape

• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Character

• Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Women
  • True
  • Dream

• Being a role model is about being true to myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • True
  • Myself
  • Model

• When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Happy
  • Humanity

• I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Man

• I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Silly
  • Get

• Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Up
  • Country
  • Internet

• The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• 'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Want
  • Me
  • Question

• The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Why
  • Eye

• My party is committed to a federation.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Party
  • Committed
  • Federation

• Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Up
  • Freedom

• Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • Sometimes
  • Better
  • Thesis

• There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Space
  • Before
  • Space Program

• A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Work
  • Stop

• The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Animals
  • Domestic
  • Unconditional

• I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Trying
  • Actor
  • New York

• I've always danced. I've always been around it.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Always
  • Been
  • Around

• This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and exult in other people's errors is not very nice, although it is certainly very human.

  

  Kathryn Schulz
  • People
  • Nice

• The best moments are when, together with... you bring information, you bring data to bear in a way that helps illuminate something that you just don't really understand. Even if it doesn't completely clarify it, it just, you know, helps bring it together.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Together
  • Moments

• Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.

  

  Georges Danton
  • Perpetual
  • Boldness

• She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.

  

  William Gibson
  • Moments
  • Beach
  • Surf