Elena Satine Quotes
I'm fascinated by anything that deals with the unexplained. I love any show that totally makes me want to know more. How did they build these pyramids? Why did they find these carvings that look like spaceships?
Quotes to Explore
-
I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
-
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
-
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
-
I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
-
At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
-
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
-
The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
-
I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
-
I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
-
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
-
As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
-
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
-
Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
-
I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
-
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
-
My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
-
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
-
Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
-
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
-
I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surfaces of the water.
-
I started off as a 'Star Trek' fan, and to be able to work on the series was a great honor.
-
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
-
Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care.
-
I'm fascinated by anything that deals with the unexplained. I love any show that totally makes me want to know more. How did they build these pyramids? Why did they find these carvings that look like spaceships?
