Larry Niven Quotes

Stupidity is always a capital crime.

Larry Niven

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• You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • You
  • Need
  • Washington

• We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Vices
  • Our
  • Ladder

• Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Government
  • Revolution

• That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • True
  • Nature
  • Death

• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Reading

• Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Day

• We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Believe
  • Black
  • Church

• Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I've dabbled in.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Done

• I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Play
  • Find

• The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Trouble
  • Cat
  • Pet

• You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Style
  • Hair
  • Choose

• It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs – because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Way
  • Attention

• Commanders-in-chief make really tough decisions.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Really
  • Decisions
  • Tough

• Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Reality
  • Goddess

• The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Present

• I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

  

  Agatha Christie

• Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People

• Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.

  

  Linda M. Godwin

• It's an interesting juxtaposition, being student body president and leading others and learning how to effectively help people on the team in a way that's not as direct.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • People
  • Help
  • Interesting

• Being a New Yorker and someone that goes to MoMA as a patron, I want it to be good.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • Good

• Did I, my lines intend for public view,How many censures, would their faults pursue,Some would, because such words they do affect,Cry they're insipid, empty, uncorrect.And many, have attained, dull and untaught,The name of wit, only by finding fault.True judges, might condemn their want of wit,And all might say, they're by a woman writ.

  

  Anne Finch
  • View
  • Lines
  • Judges

• I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums.

  

  Wang Jianwei
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Painting

• Stupidity is always a capital crime.

  

  Larry Niven