"Stand high long enough and your lightning will…" — William Gibson
"Stand high long enough and your lightning will come."
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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 High Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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High thoughts must have high language.
— Aristophanes
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
— Aristophanes
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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out…
— Hank Azaria
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That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth.…
— Julian Assange
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The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as…
— Chinua Achebe
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
— Diane Ackerman
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Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.
— Diane Ackerman
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Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
— Richard Avedon
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If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there…
— David Axelrod
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I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know…
— Dan Aykroyd
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My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I…
— Jensen Ackles
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