Charles Stross
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in fr... THE CHILDREN I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b... THE CHILDREN KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON JARON LANIER RICHARD LINKLATER I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist p... 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CHRIS SHERMAN PRINCE WILLIAM PRINCESS DIANA CATHERINE THE GREAT KATE MIDDLETON KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken. ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don... ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ZARA PHILLIPS KING JAMES I MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina... WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea... WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w... WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave. WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me. WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe... WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain. WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting. WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin. WALLIS SIMPSON KING SOLOMON FREDERICK THE GREAT KATE MIDDLETON MARIE ANTOINETTE MARIE ANTOINETTE QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN QUEEN VICTORIA KING JAMES I CHARLES V KATE MIDDLETON MARIE ANTOINETTE
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I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting,... 
I've always been interested in the industrialization of our food; it's been an issue for me ... 
Renewables is part of social responsibility, but the information revolution is the only main thing I... 
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. 
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... 
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... 
I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all ... 
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... 
Family is the most important thing in the world. 
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... 
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... 
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. 
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. 
My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them... 
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. 
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most... 
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. 
I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. 
I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It... 
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. 
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. 
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb... 
Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card. 
I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground ... 
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. 
How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a ... 
Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure... 
Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explai... 
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entir... 
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. 
We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next. 
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to o... 
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'... 
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what tru... 
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have bee... 
The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or... 
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to ta... 
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. 
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. 
One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to h... 
A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight. 
A man can preach no better than he prays. 
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. 
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a fami... 
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take... 
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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in... 
There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something. 
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss. 
I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secure... 
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon... 
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill... 
I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white. 
'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the c... 
You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the van... 
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rust... 
So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream. 
I could never hate anyone I knew. 
Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, ... 
We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is official... 
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. 
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms ... 
Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait. 
The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if th...