Way Quotes - Page 580

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

There will always be people with disabilities. And by my estimation, the scorecard for the way we take care of those who need our help the most, those at the very bottom of that safety net, is pretty dismal. And that has to change.

The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.

The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me, it definitely was my native literary culture. Science fiction was where I'm from, but on the way to now, I went through a lot of other territory, and I wasn't really that culturally conventional an SF writer when I started.

I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.

I loved the Limey [movie]! It's so violent! And yet it's so exquisitely romanticized in a sort of Japanese way, it's a samurai film. Coming out of that, I was really deeply conflicted, because a friend who had seen it said, it's beautiful, but it's not about anything. it's one micron thick.

'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.

The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro.

I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.

I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.

Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?

I can't sit through the superhero films. But I watched Draft Day, and it was kind of sweet in an old-fashioned way.

That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.

It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.

The most effective way to improve productivity is to eliminate work.

Anytime you adopt a new system you change work flow and so people have to change, to some degree change the way in which they do things.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs

the set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way.