"Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup……" — William Gibson
"Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water."
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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 Boiling Quotes
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one of 115 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached…
— Benjamin Carson
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Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and…
— Edna Lewis
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The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the…
— Charles Dickens
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I think egg boiling is the hardest thing I've ever done, but I can make a tiramisu anytime you want.
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold…
— Rumi
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One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling…
— John Ruskin
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Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world ... I've always seen the world by running, and that has…
— Grete Waitz
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Karate is like boiling water: without heat, it returns to it's tepid state
— Gichin Funakoshi
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That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I had a creative hot streak in the 1940s and since then I’ve been pot boiling.
— Stephen Shore
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What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs -…
— Kurt Cobain
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