Larry Niven Quotes

Seen through the glow of a building orgasm, a woman seems to blaze with angelic glory.

Larry Niven

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• We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Stop
  • Old
  • Propaganda

• I'm very candid.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Very
  • Candid

• The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Child
  • Slavery

• The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • See

• I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Across
  • Chest
  • Wore

• I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Power
  • Brain
  • Positive

• We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Sometimes
  • Talk
  • Tell

• A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • You

• Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Teach
  • Insight
  • Reveal

• I don't think I've ever watched a movie to prepare for a role.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Ever

• Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • World
  • War
  • World War II

• 'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Job
  • Respect
  • Self

• At a time when every series we're supposed to be DVR-ing is very important, very serious, has to do with heavy, heavy matters, I think 'Wet Hot' provides a respite to that DVR homework. It's totally the gummy bears of your programming.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Time
  • Important
  • Serious

• There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, the best business people, the best coaches. So one thing is not going to make or break a person.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• This is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man has sought to recover become his once more.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Knowledge

• The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Flower
  • Sunday

• I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?

  

  Bea Arthur
  • God
  • Comedy
  • Voice

• The world has a great deal more to offer than money.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • World
  • Great
  • Money

• The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Women
  • Giving
  • Wounded Man

• I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.

  

  Denton Cooley
  • Feeling
  • Failure
  • Working

• Seen through the glow of a building orgasm, a woman seems to blaze with angelic glory.

  

  Larry Niven