William Gibson Quotes

I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.

William Gibson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MyselfBetterWayFirstRightWatch

What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.

Jim Harrison

StyleQualityMeWritingStoryMost

The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the slave trade in the 19th century; that was morally just. Shame they didn't bother to abolish slavery at the same time.

Jeremy Corbyn

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I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

Megan Abbott

AgeMeThinkSaidAlwaysWho

True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.

Mehmet Oz

HealthCareWashingtonTruePersonal

My M.O. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that.

Jeff Bridges

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Don't focus on weekly or monthly returns.

John Paulson

FocusWeeklyReturnsMonthly

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Sugata Mitra

ChildrenPeoplePresentBetterWay

The federal government is way larger than it should be.

Ron Johnson

GovernmentWayFederal Government

When someone says, 'I trusted you,' the phrase is loaded with all the actions that came from that trust: the person comes almost to embody trust, just as anyone who's always hustling can only be called a hustler.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

TrustSomeoneYouPersonAlways

You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

Christine Lagarde

LifeLoveBusinessMyselfDeathEgo

My parents did an excellent job of bringing me up with values.

Bruce Smith

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The more evident it is that a certain company is going to become the market leader in a big market space, then the higher the valuation goes because the risk has been dramatically reduced.

Audrey MacLean

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