Genrich Altshuller Quotes
The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.
Quotes to Explore
-
All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
-
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
-
I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
-
I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
-
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
-
We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
-
There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.
-
That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.
-
You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
-
Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
-
As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
-
When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.
-
I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions, and I listen to the answer.
-
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
-
I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible.
-
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
-
I think... I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.
-
Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.
-
The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.
-
You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
-
I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy.
-
Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist.
-
You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.
-
The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.
