William Gibson Quotes

All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.

William Gibson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 17, 1948

Topics

FutureMomentWritingIceIce Cream

I wanted to dress cool, and get all the ladies.

John Singleton

DressCoolGetWantedLadies

Once I moved to L.A., there was a dark moment of trying to keep up with the girls I thought were pretty. Until I realised that's the stupidest thing you can do because people are so pretty in L.A.!

Amy Adams

MomentPeopleThoughtTryingYouUp

As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.

Steven Pinker

LearningChildrenLanguageLongDots

I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night.

Robert Downey, Jr.

LunchNightPlayAlwaysOutUp

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

Robert Baden-Powell

LifeSaltSugarDifficultiesMeat

All my life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend.

Ronnie Wood

LifeMy LifeAlwaysGirlfriendBeen

I admit that I've been beaten up so many times in films, but we do not fake it - we actually have to fight when we shoot to make it real and to save film and time. Even the props that are not real, like the bats are plastic, but they're still very hard, so it still hurts.

Min-sik Choi

TimeFightFakeAdmitHardPlastic

Dog rescue remains a gamble, of course. For all the good will, hard work, and noble motivation, nobody can really predict with certainty how a traumatized, dislocated dog will respond in a new environment.

Jon Katz

WorkHard WorkDogGoodMotivation

My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear my father's name was hard enough, but to work in pictures to boot was pretty foolhardy. In fact, my father was totally against it. He thought I should be off getting a good education and go into some safe profession.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

WorkEducationGoodStarsFather

My mama told me it's not what they call you - it's what you answer to.

Donna Brazile

MeYouMamaAnswerCall

We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines.

Clive Thompson

PeopleNowMachinesNimbleAround

Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

Brad Grey

TimeMoneyPeopleEgoBehaveAny

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