Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes
It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.
Quotes to Explore
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Ironically, style doesn't come even closely related to fashion. It's got nothing to do [with clothes].
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'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.
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The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.
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Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.
