Larry Niven Quotes

Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.

Larry Niven

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• Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Powerful

• I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Think
  • Me
  • Confidence

• One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Change
  • Years
  • Wishes

• You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • You
  • Always
  • Talent

• I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Good
  • Day

• If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.

  

  Lance Gross
  • She
  • Woman
  • Facebook

• My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Given the divisiveness and pain that have accompanied several state religious freedom laws, I approach attempts at legislating religious exceptions to anti-discrimination laws with great sensitivity and care.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Great
  • Freedom
  • Pain

• My looks vary, but I definitely think about it and plan. I like to shop, too, so I'm always mixing it up. But normally, I'll be wearing something like a college T-shirt and a sweater, something like that. But I definitely have to plan.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • Think
  • College

• My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Vice
  • Involvement
  • Began

• Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Friend
  • Profession
  • Possession

• Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • High
  • Wind
  • Acceptance

• I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Good
  • Live
  • Art

• This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Day
  • February
  • Are

• In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • Political
  • Strong
  • City

• Industrialization came to England but has since left.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • England
  • Left
  • Industrialization

• I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.

  

  Anne Sexton

• 'Joker' was a violent, dark, and brutal book, so I wanted to do something a little less heavy. I played around with the idea of a children's book, and that eventually became 'Noel.' And I just kept finding these parallels between things I could do with Batman and Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol.'

  

  Lee Bermejo
  • Children
  • Book
  • Dark

• I did 'Quigley Down Under,' which is quite deliberately placed in Australia, which is a Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, Laura San Giacomo film from '88, I want to say.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn

• Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Bad
  • Light
  • Decision

• There isn't anyone anywhere who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know — listen to me, now — don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.

  

  J. D. Salinger

• Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.

  

  Larry Niven