Neal Stephenson Quotes
Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.
Neal Stephenson
Quotes to Explore
-
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
Aaron Swartz
-
I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
Rachel Nichols
-
People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
Malcolm Gladwell
-
In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
Narendra Modi
-
A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
Pamela Meyer
-
When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
Maisie Williams
-
Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
Gabriella Wilde
-
Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
Sally Kellerman
-
Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
Dan Buettner
-
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
Naomi Shihab Nye
-
I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
-
I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
Zooey Deschanel
-
Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
Oscar Wilde
-
There's something about China and its rush to capitalism that I find confusing. At the same time, we live in an America where capitalists oppose any government interference with free markets, while in China you have a very controlled, state-planned market where economic growth is better than ours.
David Henry Hwang
-
I'm not scared of getting hurt. I'm not scared of, pretty much, anything. If you live your life scared, what's the fun in living it? If you were scared of getting hit by a car, would you still cross the street?
Mark Zupan
-
I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.
Martin Parr
-
My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
Oscar Isaac
-
Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.
Neal Stephenson