Rhode island Quote by Charles Stross

“[...] Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island, for cultivating a florid and overblown prose style that covered the entire spectrum from purple to ultraviolet and took sixteen volumes of interminable epistles to get to the point [...]” quote by Charles Stross — Download Open image

““[...] Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island, for cultivating a florid and overblown prose style that covered the entire spectrum from purple to ultraviolet and took sixteen volumes of interminable epistles to get to the point [...]””

Charles Stross

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings)

More by Charles Stross

We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort!

Charles Stross

Image

“Shut up. Stand up. Put this on. That’s right . . . if you were the kind of man who found it easy to do that kind…

Charles Stross

Image

Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.

Charles Stross

Image

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Stross

Image

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

Charles Stross

Image

“- Toma un puro, Sherlock. - Lo siento; sólo echo humo cuando me enchufan a la red eléctrica.”

Charles Stross

Image

I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to;…

Charles Stross

Image

“To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before”

Charles Stross

Image

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the…

Charles Stross

Image

I don't like Amazon (wearing my author hat, not my customer hat).

Charles Stross

Image

“Some say the Internet is for porn but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam.”

Charles Stross

Image

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

Charles Stross

Image

Explore all 331 Charles Stross quotes

More Rhode island quotes

“French Polynesia embraces a vast ocean area strewn with faraway outer islands, each with a mystique of its own. The 118 islands and atolls are scattered over an expanse of water 18 times the size of California, though in dry land terms the territory is only slightly bigger than Rhode Island. The distance from one end of the island groups…

David Stanley

I swam with my first shark in the 1980s. I was 20 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, working with a group of…

Brian Skerry

Image

“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.”

Kurt Vonnegut

Image

I was bullied at school. The black girl in Central Falls, Rhode Island, in 1973. There'd be 8 or 10 boys; I would count…

Viola Davis

Image

“Wyoming got an Algonquian name from Pennsylvania meaning “large prairie,” but the adoption came only after a long fight. Decades before the settling of the present state of Wyoming, its name achieved popular acclaim after an 1809 poem, “Gertrude of Wyoming,” by Thomas Campbell. The poem recalled the Iroquois defeat of a group of Tory settlers and the ensuing death…

Jack Weatherford

After graduate school, I joined Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island as an assistant professor, but I continued to program in addition to…

Hilary Mason

Image

“Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. Aldrich, a multimillionaire, a card-playing partner of J. Pierpont Morgan, the father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and…

Adam Hochschild

Image

We moved around a bit when I was younger, but I grew up primarily in Rhode Island, in a beautiful seaside community called East…

Michelle Gagnon

Image

“I mean, imagine for a second Olivero Barretto, some nice Italian kid from down the block in Cranston, Rhode Island. He comes to see Mr. Cavilleri, a wage-earning pastry chef of that city, and says, "I would like to marry your only daughter, Jennifer." What would the old man's first question be? (He would not question Barretto's love, since to…

Erich Segal

“The terribly tragic outcome of Halsted’s experiments with cocaine was his own addiction. The doctor began injecting cocaine directly into his veins for its stimulative effects, quickly becoming an addict. Eventually, he was sent to Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, where the recognized treatment for drug addiction was injecting the patient with large doses of morphine.”

Lydia Kang

“...Were you in the military?" "Are you kidding me? I was in high school." "High school," he said quietly. "You’re American. And a civilian?" "Uh, yes. An American civilian." "Lovely. A straight answer. Keep it up. Did somebody train you?" "No, nobody trained me. Unless you count the Rhode Island child welfare and juvenile justice systems. Why?" Malachi held up…

Sarah Fine

I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at times. I’m sensual. I’m not overtly sexual. I am so many things in so many ways and I will never see myself on screen. And the reason I will never see myself up on screen…

Viola Davis

Browse all 102 Rhode island quotes

Rhode island Quote by Charles Stross

Related quotes

More by Charles Stross

More Rhode island quotes