Annalee Newitz Quotes

Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.

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• I can go all over the world with Skype.

  

  Ram Dass
  • World
  • I Can
  • Skype

• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Books
  • Shame

• I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • America
  • Science
  • Kind

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • World
  • Myself
  • Find

• If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • History
  • Present

• 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.

  

  Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
  • World
  • Organization
  • Parent

• It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Time
  • World
  • Change

• I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or lose; you're not trying to get a higher score - you are having unbelievable amounts of fun as you learn about yourself and the world. That's what games can do!

  

  Warren Spector
  • World
  • Trying
  • Fun

• The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • World
  • Light
  • Candle

• I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

  

  Orson Welles
  • World
  • Decision
  • Performance

• In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • World
  • Live
  • Rise

• Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

  

  Karl Marx
  • World
  • You
  • Lose

• I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Women
  • Career
  • Science

• I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Up
  • World
  • Education

• Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • World
  • God
  • Power

• The world forgets about people who are not useful.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • People
  • World

• 'Strictly Sinatra' became a compromise between me and the producers, and neither of us liked the results much.

  

  Peter Capaldi

• When soon I sail from here, I may again run into such a storm as the one in Kvasefjord. But this time I shall clearly understand that it is not a play in the theatre, but it is death. and it seems too that then, in the last moment before we go down, I can in in all truth be yours...

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Time
  • May
  • Truth

• As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • People
  • Music
  • Style

• Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • World
  • Science
  • Universe