Dan Simmons Quotes

Sol found their tracts the usual combination of double talk and navel lint-gathering common to most religions.

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• I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Deep
  • Travel
  • Cookies

• I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Religious

• Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Healthy
  • Environmental

• I lost the ball in the moon.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Lost
  • Moon
  • Ball

• The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Trust

• I can't run on treadmills; they drive me nuts.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Me
  • Run
  • Drive

• I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Person
  • Reclusive

• I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Writing
  • Myself

• The biggest deficit in terms of gender equality at Ozon lay in our IT department. So we made a decision, along with our key IT leaders, to remove all filters and systemically interview all the women who apply.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Women
  • Decision
  • Equality

• Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • History
  • Reality
  • Comparison

• I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • School
  • Drama
  • Theatre

• Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.

  

  Dale Robertson
  • People
  • Voice
  • Everyday

• People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.

  

  Dana Hill
  • People
  • Think
  • Rest

• You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God

• No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • World
  • Men
  • America

• I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Opinion

• Anyone can learn a trick, but to make it entertaining, to put a presentation twist on it, and then to take it out there and really amaze people is a whole different ball game. You have to have some kind of a natural ability to do that, I suppose.

  

  Keith Barry
  • People
  • Different
  • Game

• I met five presidents. I had dinner with a president of the United States in the White House. I played golf with a president of the United States. I made money. I mean, when I look at it, I had a unbelievably fabulous career. And I'm extremely grateful.

  

  Jim Leyland
  • Money
  • Career
  • House

• It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or other of his journey sit down and invent a definite integral or two towards the increase of the common stock.

  

  James Joseph Sylvester
  • Up
  • Journey
  • Stock

• I can't think of an experience I've had with police that I felt was based on race, which is one difference between England and the U.S.

  

  Clare-Hope Ashitey
  • Experience
  • Police

• I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• Sol found their tracts the usual combination of double talk and navel lint-gathering common to most religions.

  

  Dan Simmons