Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous
Ambrose Bierce
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
Rafael Vinoly
The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
Adam Dell
You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
Dan Aykroyd
You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.
Nalo Hopkinson
No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
Nathan Fillion
I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.
Dan Gable
It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 percent and perhaps even less if we have that fiscal cliff in December or January 2013.
Bill Gross
To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace.
R. C. Sproul, Jr.
Only the surface of reason is rational. I don't mean that understanding emotion is easy, only that understanding reason is probably harder.
Marvin Minsky
If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.
Abraham Lincoln
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke
Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous
Ambrose Bierce