Rosanoff Quotes & Sayings

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act. — Joseph Rotblat

Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real? — S.A. Tawks

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now. — Carlos Ghosn

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment. — Marco Arment

There are moments in a creative life when you understand why you do it. Those moments might last a few seconds or maybe, for some people, years. But whatever the actual time that passes, they still feel like a single moment. Fragile in the way a moment is, liable to be shattered by a breath, set apart from all the other passing time, distinct.
But then it changes. And what seemed unimaginably exhilarating gets bogged down, even when a project is going well. It is a gradual, inevitable sobering during which your right to be passive diminishes. What the ether has given you, now in fact belongs to you. And then it is work. Then it is hard. — Robin Black

I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone! — Orson Scott Card

We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that otherwise liberty would necessarily yield to absolutism; and in the same way we have learned that unless there be regulation of competition, its excesses will lead to the destruction of competition, and monopoly will take its place. — Louis D. Brandeis

Sure, It's a good thing, though." She leaned against the ship's wheel, squinted into the sun. "Because you're a women. If they're scared of you, they'll listen to you."
"That's how it works with men too."
Marjani shook her head and laughed. "Not always. Men have the option of earning respects. — Cassandra Rose Clarke

In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done. — Fritz Lang

It was a rare brain that could feel strongly about anything, if it wasn't close in space, close in time, near at hand, within easy reach ... — Eliezer Yudkowsky

I don't want friends to die ... or fade away. I don't want battles where we have to lose in order to win. — Yuna

Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of your humanity in a very different way. It's a real release and an incredible challenge. But the stage is a dangerous place. You gotta be trained. Plus, crowds like when things go wrong. I think that's part of the thrill. Anything can happen. — Nina Arianda

It's funny how sometimes you learn things off the Internet before they're actually told to you. — Joel Edgerton

M. A. Rosanoff: Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me to observe. Edison: There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish somep'n! — Thomas A. Edison

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along. — E. M. Forster