Ken MacLeod Quotes
Darvin listened to the hymn with a mixture of enjoyment of its beauty and disdain of its content.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
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To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
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First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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Sometimes you should just put down the computer, the phone, and walk away.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution.
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It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career, you know, but I've definitely had my fair share.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.
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There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
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Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future.
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I sleep for about four hours a night, or day really. I go to bed at, like, 9 A.M., sleep for four hours, then get up and start the day again. I don't mind if that's not healthy.
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
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I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.
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Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.
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I don't have much in life but my work is what makes me alive.
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In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
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I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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Darvin listened to the hymn with a mixture of enjoyment of its beauty and disdain of its content.
