"His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating……" — William Gibson
"His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines."
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125 Quotes by William Gibson
William Gibson has 125 quotes on this site.
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The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro,
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We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
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It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
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If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think…
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The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.
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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.
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Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.
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"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
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Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into…
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Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.
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The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and…
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He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and…
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More Crystal Quotes
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one of 303 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think…
— Margaret Atwood
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Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
— Diane Ackerman
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and…
— Teresa of Avila
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of…
— Teresa of Avila
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply…
— John Berger
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better,…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
— Robert Browning
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Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern,…
— T.A. Barron
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...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe…
— Maya Angelou
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Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble…
— James Joyce
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Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the…
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find…
— Mark Twain
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