William Gibson Quotes
I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.
Quotes to Explore
-
I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
-
My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
-
I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
-
Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
-
Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
-
I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
-
Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
-
I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
-
I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
-
One can not impede scientific progress.
-
It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
-
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
-
I need this wild life, this freedom.
-
Musical theater is one of my passions.
-
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
-
For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
-
We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
-
I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
-
I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.
-
You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me.
-
Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.
-
Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
-
The attacks on our police, and the terrorism in our cities, threaten our very way of life. Any politician who does not grasp this danger is not fit to lead our country.
-
I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.
