"The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim"

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Larry Niven

#Maxims Quotes #Values Quotes

“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.”
“On the sly, scoping for love.”
“I firmly believe that we who are alive and can think today-in the closing years of the 20th century-have a commitment to our species to make sure that the flicker of movement we have thus managed in space stays sufficiently kindled so that the people of the 21st century can build upon and extend the human abode from Earth to the cosmos beyond.”
“The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.”
“I think there's a whole book being written about it in the UK. I don't know if you can get it here. It's about all the hidden messages and meetings in this and the fact that it is about women and the fact that this cave is full of blood and all this kind of stuff. And when I was making it, I didn't make it with that specifically in mind, but I always had it in the back of mind and I thought, 'Let's just throw it in there and see what people make of it.' And people seem to be making quite a lot of it. So I don't want to spell it out or say this, that or the other.”
“Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.”
“We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.”
“I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story just beyond my reach. To grasp that brass ring I need to continue to fine-tune my talents.”

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