Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

Paolo Bacigalupi

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• If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Future
  • Dream

• Being in water makes me relax instantly.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Me
  • Water
  • Being

• There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Job
  • Future
  • Free

• Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Water
  • Evil
  • Like

• To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Future

• I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Want
  • Water
  • Basically

• I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Good
  • Future
  • Me

• I think that a lot of kids today focus on impressing each other. And while that's really nice, you also have to think about your future, about getting into a good school.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• Although anything can happen when under the influence of ice water.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Water
  • Influence
  • Ice

• Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Organization

• When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Game
  • Water
  • Boy

• The future is now.

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Future
  • Now

• Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Future
  • Political
  • France

• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • Future
  • Pain

• There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Up
  • America
  • War

• The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Power
  • Future
  • Hands

• Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Future
  • Friendship
  • Option

• If you were a kid in 1955, you would pick up a copy of 'Popular Science' and it would say, 'This is the kind of car you're going to be driving in five years or in 20 years you'll be able to take a jet plane from New York to London in four hours,' or something like that. We actually got used to the idea that the future's going to be different.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Up
  • Different
  • Future

• Instagram is my edit of my life.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Life

• Maybe it'll be like 'The Simpsons,' and everybody will remain unchanged. Maybe that's what 'Glee's about. Maybe this is kind of a stasis show. I don't know.

  

  Cory Monteith

• Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.

  

  Barbara Fredrickson
  • Emotions
  • Luxuries
  • Functioning

• I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Future
  • Water
  • Organization