Andrew Wight famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

  • The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  • The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

  • Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

  • All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.

  • Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

  • I have one speed, I have one gear: go!

  • Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.

  • You have to trust your body to take care of you.

  • Public property has the same standing with me as that of an orphan; if it is much, it must be conserved, and if it is little, it must be used with care.