Larry Niven Quotes

2) Never be embarrased or ashamed about anything you choose to write. (Think of this before you send it to a market)

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• In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • History
  • Will
  • Holocaust

• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Public
  • Forgives

• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Character
  • Journey
  • Actor

• There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Independent
  • Intellectual

• To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Moment
  • Sound
  • Capture

• Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Work
  • Human
  • Brand

• I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• My sister is my sister regardless - has always been and always will be and has no choice about it. This is a love quite distinct from that of a lover, with whom we fall in love, in part, because they are free and have a choice.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Love
  • Free
  • For Her

• Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Happiness
  • Morality

• Delegation: No one is an island. You can accomplish a lot more with help.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Help

• In the faces of men and women I see God.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• Since government supposedly can do whatever it sets out to do, the president should sign an executive order outlawing death. However, as with all other laws, Congress should be exempt.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Death

• Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

  

  Carl Jung
  • World

• When I am dead, no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain it with hypocritic tear.

  

  Edward Everett

• There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • High
  • Path

• Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • May
  • Stop
  • Thoughts

• You live this life being selfish, you're not going to enjoy it like you will when you open your heart and your home up.

  

  Markwayne Mullin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• For me, as a woman in one of the less diverse fields - electrical engineering, which is what I studied in college - it was hard to persist and really build a career. Some of the things I experienced were really scary, and they weren't experiences that I wanted for my daughter.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Career
  • College
  • Daughter

• I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!

  

  Caroline Corr
  • Children
  • Home
  • Band

• We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Dead
  • Taste
  • Condition

• I disagree with the widely held view that it is metaphysical necessity, not nomological, that matters in the mind/body problem.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Problem
  • View
  • Necessity

• I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Computer
  • Typewriters

• If I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice age. It's just so very bad. You can have a pretty good time snickering at it-unless, like me, you think there's something to this global warming thing, and you shudder at the irony of a movie meant to warn people about a dangerous environmental trend that completely discredits it. Is it possible that the film is a plot to make environmental activists look as wacko as anti-environmentalists always claim they are?

  

  David Edelstein
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Tomorrow

• 2) Never be embarrased or ashamed about anything you choose to write. (Think of this before you send it to a market)

  

  Larry Niven