Margaret Atwood Quotes

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

Margaret Atwood

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LifeWorkScienceFocusQuestions

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.

Jerry Reed

KidStageUpUsedShowGet

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

Andrew Young

ThoughtEverybodyTriedI Tried

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

Max Lerner

ExcellenceManGreatnessSearchSee

I'm trying to build something where people will go every day.

Max Levchin

DayPeopleTryingEvery DayBuild

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

IntelligenceLanguageBattleAgainst

I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.

Diane von Furstenberg

American DreamDressAmericanWeek

You can't grow if you're going to say: 'The contributions of my predecessors are greater than anything I can ever achieve.' Each generation has to have a chance to find itself.

Christian Scott

ChanceGenerationGrowYouFindSay

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Brian Eno

GoodAnythingPopulistPopular

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.

Chuck Mangione

TogetherSchoolBrotherHigh School

I expressed myself through hyperactivity and disruption. I wanted to play rather than study.

Ashraf Barhom

MyselfPlayStudyDisruptionThrough

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Plato

SpeedToo MuchLittleSufferHaste

I'm a big hit at parties. Friends ask me to sing B-I-N-G-O all the time. I'm thinking, you know, of maybe putting out a Christmas album or something.

Paula Pell

TimeMeThinkingFriendsYouKnow

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