Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

Nathan Myhrvold

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• I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Decision

• It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Alone
  • Amazing
  • Lucky

• A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Women
  • Live
  • Why

• I've finished 12th standard from Poddar International and enrolled for B.A. in political science in Cambridge University, London. It's a correspondence course, and I'll go to London for my exams once a year. That way, I can devote more time to films.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Science
  • Political

• I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Time
  • Myself

• It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Grief

• People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Time
  • Political

• Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Time
  • Action
  • Wish

• There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Time
  • Done
  • Past

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Alone
  • Always
  • Camera

• I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Live
  • Fall

• I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • School
  • Feeling

• At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Time
  • Children
  • Pilgrim

• I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Universe

• I worked on live studio drama, which was one weird aberration in the 1980s. I worked on the 'Battle of Waterloo,' and my job was to reload the Brown Bess muskets - the only time the audience realised it was live was when somebody leant on a button and plunged the whole studio into blackout.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • Time
  • Live
  • Job

• In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.

  

  Anton Corbijn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Power

• Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

  

  Joan of Arc
  • People
  • Children
  • Truth

• I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Words
  • Lost

• Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

  

  Jonathan Edwards
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Universe