George Stibitz Quotes & Sayings

Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should be raw. They should be written as perfectly as possible, but what they do is to stir up, to lance the reader. — Edna O'Brien

All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself. — Hugh Prather

You carry Harry Potter books around with you to college keggers?
I lifted the volume he'd just given me and shook it in his face. What? You do too. — Linda Kage

Stranger: 'Are not thought and speech the same, with this exception, that what is called thought is the unuttered conversation of the soul with herself?
Theatetus: Quite true.
Stranger: But the stream of thought which flows through the lips and is audible is called speech?
Theatetus: True.
Stranger: And we know that there exists in speech ...
Theatetus: What exists?
Stranger: Affirmation
Theatetus: Yes, we know it. — Plato

I hate you sometimes, — Portia Moore

When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it. — Wendy Mass

I was just down in Dallas, Texas ... the Assassination Museum ... it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it. — Bill Hicks

Well. Miracles never cease.'
'Amen to that.'
Which, upon reflection, was a very strange thing to hear a vampire say. — Carrie Vaughn

The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first 'Jurassic Park,' which I think would look pretty spectacular in 3D. That's the only one of my films that I would consider doing in 3D. — Steven Spielberg

Life is change, how it differs from the rocks. — Paul Kantner

It is difficult to give a recipe for successful conversation. But it would certainly include three fundamentals. Assemble good ingredients, mix and spice with your own thinking, and serve attractively.
To assemble the ingredients, read. Read lots of different things. Read newspapers that express a viewpoint contrary to your own; read periodicals that have thoughtful, provocative articles; read books that tell of places and persons of current interest; read fiction, of course, but not to the exclusion of all other things. — Helen Valentine

I'm always like, "Maybe I can drive the car. I can still fly the plane!" — Ming-Na Wen