Ken MacLeod Quotes

The cover pirated the pictures on the Southern pamphlet and headlined a story whose title, 'Invasion from Infinity!,' bore witness to a brash disdain of doing right as much as of blithe contempt for having been proved wrong.

Ken MacLeod

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• Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • School
  • Retirement

• John Hughes loved improvisers.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Loved
  • John
  • Hughes

• We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Girl

• I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Kid
  • Candy
  • Halloween

• When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Up
  • Better
  • Victories

• The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Ideas

• It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • School
  • Why
  • Business

• A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Nothing
  • Meeting

• I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Ashamed
  • Confess

• From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Time
  • Great
  • Hope

• In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Heart
  • True
  • Matters

• If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Help
  • You
  • Help Others

• That's you now, hello, ciao.Seems that life is great now.See me lose focus, as I sing to you loud.I can't, no, I won't hush.I'll say the words that make you blush.I'm gonna sing this now.See, I'm true, my songs are where my heart is.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Life
  • Great
  • Heart

• Good intentions are pointless without the will to implement them.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Good

• That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

  

  Vanity
  • People
  • World
  • Greatness

• If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Home
  • Truth
  • Ignorance

• Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

  

  Claude McKay
  • Men
  • Fighting
  • Wall

• We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from markets to networks and stockholders to stakeholders, and greed to green.

  

  Anodea Judith
  • Moving
  • Greed
  • Command

• Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher fidelity than the lowest common denominator technology.

  

  Stewart Butterfield
  • Technology
  • Company
  • Fidelity

• You did it privately, not like now. Then you realise it's becoming your life and there are more important things. You can't sustain it. We had our dark times on drugs. We were down and paranoid.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Life
  • Drugs
  • Realise

• We take each week as it comes; we're juggling just like everybody else. It's all about spinning plates.

  

  Katherine Kelly

• When I travel on an airplane, I like to be served TWA milk and TWA coffee. But I love to be served TWA tea.

  

  Richard Lederer
  • Coffee
  • Airplane

• The cover pirated the pictures on the Southern pamphlet and headlined a story whose title, 'Invasion from Infinity!,' bore witness to a brash disdain of doing right as much as of blithe contempt for having been proved wrong.

  

  Ken MacLeod