Gernsback Awards Quotes & Sayings

Gail looked out at the water, wanting to hear it again, that soft foghorn sound, and she did, but it was inside her this time, the sound was down deep inside her, a long wordless cry for things that weren't never going to happen. — Joe Hill

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity. — Oliver Goldsmith

October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smoke, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling. We are in the midst of cool crisp days, purple mists, and Nature recklessly tossing her whole palette of dazzling tones through fields and woodlands. — Jean Hersey

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about. — Wallis Simpson

They didn't want to get too close to the crazy woman, since scientists hadn't yet proved whether crazy, like stupid, is inherited or contagious.
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You have to have in mind what you want when you go public. It's not just an end in and of itself. Suddenly, you have investors to satisfy. Investors who want - who demand - a return. — Gary Kovacs

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas. — Robert Wyatt

I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today. — Richard Trumka

There is never a time when new distraction will not show up; we sow them, so several will grow from the same seed. — Seneca.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. — J. Paul Getty