Bill Lemley Quotes & Sayings

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal. — Tom Stoppard

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot and purple grapes. — Tae Yun Kim

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive. — Christopher Meloni

From the earliest days of the nation anyone with an intelligence equal to that of sparrows had realized that the peninsula ought logically to be united as one state, but historical accident had decreed that one portion be assigned to Maryland, whose citizens despised the Eastern Shore and considered it a backwater; one portion to the so-called state of Delaware, which never could find any reasonable justification for its existence; and the final portion to Virginia, which allowed its extreme southern fragment of the Eastern Shore to become the most pitiful orphan in America. — James A. Michener

I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels. — William Gibson

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What really worries me is that those who are in positions of power are not really affected by what we are writing. In the moral dialogue you want to start, you really want to involve the leaders. People ask me: "Why were you so bold as to publish A Man of the People? How did you think the Government was going to take it? You didn't know there was going to be a coup?" I said rather flippantly that nobody was going to read it anyway, so I wasn't likely to be fired from my official position. It's a distressing thought that we cannot engage our leaders in the kind of moral debate we need. — Chinua Achebe

A wedding is no way to begin a marriage. — Lois Greiman

We can drink soup with a fork, it will only take long time! As long as we are patient, we can drink it even with a tiny pin! — Mehmet Murat Ildan