Ringworld Quotes & Sayings

You're able to accomplish anything you set out to accomplish. — Pierre Omidyar

Here in England there's a glass wall between you and the taste of reality. I don't want to see the last true passion tamed by railways, and men with Bibles telling everyone to cover their bodies." He spread his powerful, elegant hands. "Play your string quintets, by all means, Mr. Narraway, but don't silence the drums simply because you don't understand them. The men who play violins have steel and gunpowder, and the men who play drums don't. — Anne Perry

I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way. — Patricia Richardson

I read a lot of Socrates in the off-season. Don't print that, or it'll ruin my rep. — Travis Hafner

You don't help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians. — Robert P. Murphy

Some persons like to give others lightning and storm for their own profit, while there are also people that like the sun see shining for every one, without thinking.
Jan Jansen — Jan Jansen

Serenades," he said, "are customarily performed under moonslight, or have fashions here changed?"
"I don't know," I said. "No one's serenaded me, and as for my serenading anyone else, even if I wanted to, which I don't, my singing voice sounds like a sick crow. — Sherwood Smith

The road of life's twists and turns give wisdom; reading books and schooling give you knowledge. — Debasish Mridha

Indeed he had worn that piece of furniture - or symbol of bone-laziness - into such a shape as made the descent of any other body than his own into that crater of undulating horsehair a hazardous enterprise. — Mervyn Peake

As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field. — Benito Mussolini

Accepting help is its own kind of strength — Kiera Cass

In life comes:Tradgey,Power,Pride,Faith
Author, Regina Dorsey tells her life story of how it was. — Regina Dorsey

Middle Earth. Vulcan. Pern. Arrakis. Magrathea. Discworld, Mid-World, Riverworld, Ringworld. Worlds upon worlds. — Ernest Cline

Exercise is wonderful," said Louis. "I could sit and watch it all day. — Larry Niven

A lot of people [are] saying civil union," Faried told KDVR. "I don't like it being called that because I can get married to a female and it can be called a marriage. Why can't a female be married to a female and male be married to a male and it be called a marriage? You still have the same thing, same love and happiness. — Kenneth Faried

I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres and planets. Build a ring 93 million miles in radius - one Earth orbit - around the sun. If we have the mass of Jupiter to work with, and if we make it a thousand miles wide, we get a thickness of about a thousand feet for the base.
And it has advantages. The Ringworld will be much sturdier than a Dyson sphere. We can spin it on its axis for gravity. A rotation speed of 770 m/s will give us a gravity of one Earth normal. We wouldn't even need to roof it over. Place walls one thousand miles high at each edge, facing the sun. Very little air will leak over the edges.
Lord knows the thing is roomy enough. With three million times the surface area of the Earth, it will be some time before anyone complains of the crowding. — Larry Niven

All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see them. Surely it is not my fault that they fall into certain lines and angles. — Aubrey Beardsley