Larry Niven Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
-
The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
-
I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
-
I just love to dance. Pretty much every night, I'll just turn on the radio in my room and dance like crazy.
-
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
-
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
-
When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.
-
To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
-
I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.
-
I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
-
We believe that Apple has it wrong: they've talked about it being the post-PC era, they talk about the tablet and PC being different; the reality in our world is that we think that's completely incorrect.
-
I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two! I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two!
-
Christopher Reeve so completely inhabited the character Superman when he was in that costume, and that had such a huge effect on me as a child, watching those films back in the '70s. There was so much of that character that was, for me, Superman.
-
I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.
-
I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.
-
When you start fighting, when your dream is to be the champion of the world, when you accomplish that, you don't feel lost. It doesn't hinder you. It only helps.
-
The record shows that I've kept a very steady hand on the helm throughout some enormous challenges.
-
America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
-
Above all, when your voices are heard in government, it's far more likely that your basic needs will be met. And that’s why reform must reach the daily lives of those who are hungry and those who are ill, and those who live without electricity or water.
-
Businesses that have gone through an episode of hyperinflation become understandably alert to the threat of it: at the first hint of inflation, they're likely to increase prices, since they've learned that if they don't, and inflation hits, their businesses will be wrecked.
-
Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
-
The biggest thing for me is wanting my kids to grow up safely and have happy lives. To me, that's enough.
-
I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
-
The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
