Larry Niven Quotes

I asked him, 'Do you know the difference between nude and naked?'He shook his head.'Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.'

Larry Niven

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• Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Home
  • Help
  • Attention

• Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Up
  • Family
  • Parents

• You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Long
  • Management
  • Short

• The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Child

• I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Healthy

• I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Control

• When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Fear
  • Know
  • Unknown

• The sprint is sometimes like a toss of a coin. Sometimes it's heads, and sometimes it's tails.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Like
  • Sometimes
  • Coin

• Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Soul

• I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Technology
  • Missing

• I believe in hard work, not luck factor. The best efforts will reap the best fruits. Nobody can take all the credit. We don't even talk about the efforts of the director, the writers, other technicians, etc. They all together take a film to another level.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Together

• My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Water
  • Boat
  • Escape

• Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • History
  • Garden
  • Impossible

• I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• We fought a lonely battle against terrorism sponsored by Sudan, and we have defeated it; we cannot be intimidated by any force. For us our guide is the Constitution of Uganda and the laws there under.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Lonely

• Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.

  

  Pablo Neruda

• I'm not scared of dying And I, don't really care If it' s peace you find in dyingWell then, let the time be near.

  

  Laura Nyro
  • Time
  • Peace
  • Dying

• One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games and it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Good
  • Men
  • Done

• To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

  

  Michel Legrand
  • Play
  • Spiritual
  • Existence

• One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off of instinct, but sometimes that is not reliable. When you're not feeling it, what do you do? So, going to grad school was about getting the tools to just use my instrument to the best of my ability.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • School
  • Why
  • Feeling

• Use the imagination to picture only what is good, what is beautiful, what is beneficial, what is ideal, and what you wish to realize. Mentally see yourself receiving what you deeply desire to receive. What you imagine, you will think, and what you think, you will become. Therefore, if you imagine only those things that are in harmony with what you wish to obtain or achieve, all your thinking will soon tend to produce what you want to attain or achieve.

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Think
  • Imagination
  • Become

• Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on-board for the sequel of Dumb & Dumber, I would've jumped on, with no hesitation.

  

  Jeff Daniels
  • Long
  • Dumb

• There are a lot of ways an oppressed people can rise. One way to rise is to study, to be smarter than your oppressor. The concept of rising against oppression through physical contact is stupid and self-defeating. It exalts brawn over brain. And the most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.

  

  Benjamin Hooks
  • Brain
  • Study
  • Civilization

• I asked him, 'Do you know the difference between nude and naked?'He shook his head.'Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.'

  

  Larry Niven