Neil Shubin famous quotes

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  • A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.

  • Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.

  • Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.

  • We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

  • It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

  • One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

  • I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.

  • Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.

  • In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.

  • This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.