Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

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• If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Beauty

• I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Government

• I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Man
  • Baby
  • Complete

• I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Friend
  • Radio
  • Plays

• Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Hard
  • Again

• I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Silence
  • Lose
  • Solitude

• I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Long
  • Love

• I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• What is without periods of rest will not endure.

  

  Ovid
  • Rest
  • Will
  • Without

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Happened

• I don't feel closeted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Feel

• In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Running
  • Air
  • Service

• In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Country
  • Rock
  • Falling

• Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Life
  • Good
  • Respect

• Save for a few people in my life, every close male relationship that I have, they're all warriors, whether they're SEALs, competitive martial artists, or professional mountain climbers. They have a certain code.

  

  Kurt Johnstad
  • People
  • Life
  • Relationship

• My parents are Dominican. I would always go to the Dominican Republic, and I fell in love with Bachata, which comes from the Dominican Republic.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Parents

• I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Mind

• I was the illegitimate child of the legitimate theater. I had no training. I came from downtown rock and roll, and when I came in and auditioned for the Broadway revival of 'Hair,' I had no eyebrows - kind of a Bowie-esque glimmer kid. And it was hard representing the flower power era when we were stone cold punks.

  

  Annie Golden
  • Power
  • Rock
  • Hair

• I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the "Iliad" is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the "Odyssey" is more comfortable, even for us.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Mean
  • Language
  • Compare

• If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Important
  • Doing