China Mieville Quotes

Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek.

China Mieville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 6, 1972

Topics

PeopleWorldRunTalkMilitaryRice

For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

Jimmy Connors

LifeFamilyMy LifeImportantYears

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.

John Elway

FireThinkBetterLearnYouDone

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

John Mayer

MusicYouSellingBluesHappenOut

What I've learned as we've gotten bigger is that it's really, really important for us to take all the opportunities to tell our story, because as we grow and have a bigger impact on cities, if we don't tell our story, somebody else will.

Travis Kalanick

StoryOpportunitiesImpactGrowWill

I was about 10 when I first began to sing. My mother had been away for three weeks, and I learned 'Don't Cry for Me Argentina.' When she came back, I sang it in front of her, my auntie Linda, my father, my uncle Jim, and my grandmother.

Roisin Murphy

FatherMotherMeBackUncleThree

I think this is how life is. It's not a linear march through time; you revolve around the same old things as you age and acquire experiences.

Miranda July

LifeAgeTimeThinkYouMarch

I love heels. I remember the first time I saw a pair of heels my mum said: 'You're not wearing those. They're too high!'

Dionne Bromfield

LoveTimeRememberYouSaidHigh

I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.

Derek Bok

CollegeThinkTeachWriteHireHow

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

Chester A. Arthur

MoneyValuePeopleEvilMeasured

My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

Brendon Burchard

LifeBestPerspectiveMeMy Life

I do accept that, with - with respect to those vague terms in the Constitution such as equal protection of the laws, due process of law, cruel and unusual punishments. I fully accept that those things have to apply to new phenomena that didn't exist at the time.

Antonin Scalia

RespectTimeLawConstitutionNew

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.

Annie Leibovitz

WorkFindWayMy OwnGlamourOwn

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