Gordon R. Dickson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
-- Gordon R. Dickson

#Funny #Wall #Crazy
Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want to call it that - is the World Engineer's Complex. That monster is opposed to us and can keep all too good a tab on us through every purchase we make with our credit numbers, every time we use the public transportation or eat a meal or rent a place to live.
-- Gordon R. Dickson

#Our World #Numbers #Monsters
A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it as an excuse for his actions.
-- Gordon R. Dickson

#Faith #Use #Action
A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.
-- Gordon R. Dickson

#Running #Sweet #Horse
Unrivalled not only in its class, but in a class by itself.
-- Gordon R. Dickson

#Class

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.
Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
I sank down onto the bed against the headboard and leaned back. I crossed my legs underneath me. "Then we'll talk." I said with a smile. Rush sat down onto the bed and leaned back against the wall. A deep chuckle came from his chest and I watched as a real smile broke out on his face. "I can't believe I just begged a female to sit and talk to me." In all honesty, I couldn't either.
But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.
You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist. Not as people. They're only there to wait for the men. To love them and be loved back or not -- mostly not; to be beaten up or killed; to appear as a face on the wall of Meurseault's cell--
I have a really great family, and when Im not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I dont get crazy.

Gordon R. Dickson famous quotes

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