Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

Marilyn vos Savant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 11, 1946

Topics

GoodMorningGreatNightYouWill

When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.

Jim Crace

TrustStartRestYouWayTop

When you're surrounded by brilliant actors, and teachers who challenge you to go beyond what you thought you were capable of, that's got to be good for you.

Jessie Buckley

GoodChallengeThoughtYouGo

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.

John Gilmore

MathematicsBrokenSocietyPhysics

Major global institutions need to harvest clean tech knowledge wherever it can be found and integrate it into their major export systems.

Jens Martin Skibsted

KnowledgeHarvestCleanNeedGlobal

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Maya Angelou

TravelLaughFriendsDieWorryCry

I do think, in general, children are so perceptive, and they watch and they get so much, and that's wonderful. And it's also difficult for them because they see so much, but they don't understand.

Amity Gaige

ChildrenThinkUnderstandDifficult

Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls this dispute from the ivory tower into day-to-day decision-making. Is it right to write? The publishing industry is slowly beginning to commit to using sustainably harvested trees.

Tristram Stuart

BeginningValueEnvironmentalTrees

As a kid, my nickname was Tarzan. I never wore shoes, and I walked around and fished and camped out and just was a grub.

Travis Fimmel

ShoesNeverKidOutJustAround

The players must be at the centre of their industry.

Rob Andrew

IndustryMustPlayersCentre

Never quit believing that you can develop in life. Never give up. Don't deny the inward spirit that provides the drive to accomplish great things in life.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

LifeNever Give UpGreatDriveYou

Problem-solving is essential to engineering. Engineers are constantly on the lookout for a better way to do things.

Dinesh Paliwal

EngineeringBetterEngineersWay

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

Christopher Nolan

DreamsTimeLongLong TimeKidFilm

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