Cory Doctorow Quotes

Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

Cory Doctorow

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• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Movies

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Me

• I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Time
  • Me
  • Play

• When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Wanted
  • Happen
  • Little

• If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Change
  • Conflict
  • Global

• I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Know
  • Down
  • Opinions

• In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Poetry
  • Idea
  • Bank

• Cleaning, like seduction, should be done from the top down - starting with the ceiling, which is ridiculous. Gravity takes care of that.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Cleaning
  • Seduction

• Memory is your image of perfection.

  

  Barbara Kruger

• If we increase freight rates, the goods will move through the roads and the condition of the roads will become worse.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

• No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honour, it has no word to keep. … Hitler is himself the nation. That incidentally is why Hitler always has to talk so loud, even in private conversation - because he is speaking with 78 million voices.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Why
  • Fate

• How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Bitter

• English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Nature
  • English

• You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Time
  • Money
  • Blue

• My dad didn't want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a bachelors degree in Communications at the Manhattan College.

  

  Daniella Alonso
  • School
  • Dad
  • College

• I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Time
  • Children

• I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer but for the person I am, I love animals.

  

  Lori Foster
  • Character
  • Animal

• For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise. China is much bigger, richer, more powerful militarily, and has much better skill in diplomacy. They outdo us in every field. But they have no justice. We have placed our whole faith in truth and in justice. We have nothing else, in principle and in practice.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Real
  • Money
  • Truth

• All that Christ did and suffered would have been necessary had only one human soul been the object of redemption; and nothing different and nothing more would have been required had every child of Adam been saved through his blood.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • Different
  • Soul
  • Blood

• It's blasphemous, don't get distracted by these lottery tickets and statues. It's just fake gold and plastic... We crying for votes but how many of us is on the board. Better yet, when's the last time you showed up and supported the NAACP Awards?

  

  Nick Cannon
  • Gold
  • Fake
  • Cry

• It seems to me that nothing would be more foolish than to re-establish the worship of Wotan. Our old mythology ceased to be viable when Christianity implanted itself. Nothing dies unless it is moribund.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Christianity
  • Worship
  • Foolish

• Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

  

  Cory Doctorow