Quotes of: Orwell Keyword

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

Iain Banks

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

Lauren DeStefano

While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.

Stephen Bayley

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

Herb Caen

It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.

Matt Lauer

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.

Alan Coren

Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.

Caitlin Moran

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.

Graydon Carter

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

Gloria Naylor

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.

Jonathan Evison

God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.

Joel C. Rosenberg

U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

Barton Gellman

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

Gloria Naylor

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Marilyn vos Savant

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Aristotle

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Aristotle

I don't believe the world's a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption.

Colum McCann

There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

Joyce Brothers

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

Bill McKibben

I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.

Hari Kunzru

McDonald's says it's phasing out pig gestation crates. When I heard that news, I almost started crying.

Jane Velez-Mitchell