Neal Stephenson Quotes

As a fantasy writer, he was not highly regarded ('one cannot call him profoundly mediocre without venturing so far out on the critical limb as to bend it to the ground,' 'so derivative that the reader loses track of who he’s ripping off,' 'to say he is tin-eared would render a disservice to a blameless citizen of the periodic table of the elements').

Neal Stephenson

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• Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Simple
  • Human
  • Difficult

• I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Think
  • English

• Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Most
  • Terror
  • Sacred

• I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

  

  Yuna
  • Think
  • Always
  • Beginning

• We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

  

  Wendell Mayes
  • Know
  • Never
  • Navy

• My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Same

• It is possible that the digital world may change the need for physical branches. We will continue to add branches incrementally, but we will reach a point - whether it is 1,500, 1,800 or 2,000 branches - where we will say enough is enough.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • World
  • May
  • Change

• We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Business
  • Food
  • Attention

• I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • Look
  • Face

• I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Home
  • Man
  • Night

• I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• Always follow your own path.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Path
  • Own
  • Follow

• Letters have been found with my name on assassination lists.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Name
  • Found
  • Letters

• We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world.

  

  Ed Markey
  • World
  • Know
  • Lost

• I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's what I like about my life - doing new things, having a new perspective.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Woman
  • Wear
  • Suit

• I'll probably always be 'Timothy Spall's son' and it's something I'm proud of. Maybe one day as well as that, they'll say of Timothy Spall that 'He's Rafe Spall's dad'.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Dad
  • Day
  • Proud

• You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Children
  • Way
  • Hard

• I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.

  

  Benjamin Walker
  • Great
  • Money
  • Hand

• The great thing about writing is that you always put yourself in the shoes of the character. If you're doing it right, you can see into the heart of all your characters. Usually, when there's a writing problem, it's because you aren't doing that.

  

  Peter Gould
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Heart

• I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing.

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • Mind
  • Wish
  • Fall

• Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.

  

  Jody Watley Shalamar
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Career

• As a fantasy writer, he was not highly regarded ('one cannot call him profoundly mediocre without venturing so far out on the critical limb as to bend it to the ground,' 'so derivative that the reader loses track of who he’s ripping off,' 'to say he is tin-eared would render a disservice to a blameless citizen of the periodic table of the elements').

  

  Neal Stephenson