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Bob Shaw Quotes

The universe is wonderful, but only when there is somebody there to wonder at it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: irish
Birth: December 31, 1931 - February 11, 1996

Topics

Universe Wonder Wonderful Only

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Alone World Looking Important Way

You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.

People Ideas Gold Potential Learn

There are songs that I have to play!

The world got enamored with smartphones and tablets, but what's interesting is those devices don't do everything that needs to be done. Three-D printing, virtual-reality computing, robotics are all controlled by PCs.

World Interesting Done Printing Got

Both on an individual and a national scale, debt imprisons.

Debt Individual Scale National Both

If I saw someone in need and I did nothing, I'd be defacing my own humanity.

Someone Humanity Nothing My Own Need

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Jorge Luis Borges

Sand Stone Build Nothing Must Built

I'm a big outdoorsman... I'm a big hunter. Avid fisherman. Hiker. Climber. Scuba diver. Skier. Love the outdoors.

Love Outdoors Hunter Big Avid Scuba

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.

Peter L. Berger

Power Economy Individual Market Some

The one time I'd ever babysat, the kid ran into a glass door and got a concussion.

Time Door Glass Kid Got Ever

My jewelry's all fake - from Claire's. Or I get it from my mom's boutique in Barbados.

Mom Jewelry Fake Get Barbados

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Richard Strauss

I Am May I May Not Am Second-Rate

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