James Gleick Quotes

If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.

James Gleick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 1, 1954

Topics

LiveWorldBetterLookMannersWant

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else's. I'm not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I'm all about.

Jocko Willink

WorkReligionPeopleMeBetterYou

The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.

John M. Ford

MeMeanDecideThingsSeemsShow

I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.

Jeff Mangum

HomeMeSituationNothingWillLike

The one thing I've always tried to do in my life, in my work, on TV, is I just keep it real. I find it hard and time-consuming to try to be fake.

Ana Navarro

LifeWorkFakeMy LifeFindTry

I've always wanted to work in comedy.

Amber Stevens

WorkComedyAlwaysWanted

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

Stephen Hawking

UniverseKnowWantNothingWhyThan

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.

Silvan Shalom

LifePositivePlanNewCallEase

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

Robert Burton

YearMakeScholarsOfficersEvery

I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet.

Michael Scheuer

NatureIntelligenceBetterInformed

It's very strange to become a character: the lines get blurred, and you start to sort of, I don't know, take it home too much?

Jonny Lee Miller

HomeCharacterStartYouToo Much

I was a Skynyrd fan before I was approached to be a part of Skynyrd, and they always ended it with 'Free Bird,' so I've been watching it since I was a kid.

Johnny Van Zant

BirdFreeWatchingKidAlwaysBeen

I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

Denise Juneau

EducationPowerSchoolMeBelieve

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