Rick Smolan Quotes
I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.
Quotes to Explore
-
Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
-
Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
-
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
-
What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
-
As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
-
I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
-
When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
-
I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
-
Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
-
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
-
I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
-
'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.
-
I love playing sport.
-
Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.
-
When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.
-
'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.
-
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
-
I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.
-
I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.
-
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
-
I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It's this barrier that I don't want to have to attack.
-
People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
-
Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
-
I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.
