Star Trek's insight lay in the promise of going to the stars together, with well-defined stereot...
GREGORY BENFORD As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal colu...
GREGORY BENFORD In coastal waters rich in runoff, plankton can swarm densely, a million in a drop of water. They col...
GREGORY BENFORD Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was c...
GREGORY BENFORD We hope we can slow or possibly reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's.
GREGORY BENFORD Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the inte...
GREGORY BENFORD Enzymes - plainly the most important biotechnology of our era - already permeate many industrial pro...
GREGORY BENFORD The simplest way to remove carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, is to grow plants - preferably t...
GREGORY BENFORD Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans ta...
GREGORY BENFORD True twins share womb chemistry and endure many fateful slings and arrows together. The fabled conne...
GREGORY BENFORD Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into th...
GREGORY BENFORD A view of nature as dense and nonlinear is at the core of our contemporary science. Process and orde...
GREGORY BENFORD DNA sequencing opens vast ethical issues. We shall be able to know who has defective genes. What wil...
GREGORY BENFORD Mathematics cannot handle physical quantities like density that literally go to infinity.
GREGORY BENFORD The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert ...
GREGORY BENFORD Invoking nature with its implied supremacy ignores that many cultures have fundamentally differing i...
GREGORY BENFORD In science fiction, basic doubts featured prominently in the worlds of Philip K. Dick. I knew Phil f...
GREGORY BENFORD The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a...
GREGORY BENFORD We have a name for people who create universes - they're called gods. There is no greater hubris...
GREGORY BENFORD Very little useful science got done in the space station. NASA never did the experiments needed to d...
GREGORY BENFORD Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is wo...
GREGORY BENFORD Virtuality - connection without proximity - is a major attraction in both fandom and the Net. Nobody...
GREGORY BENFORD The Matrix itself is not some external evil, but rather an outcome of our own error, our karmic payo...
GREGORY BENFORD Because I've been a full professor doing research and lecturing at the University of California,...
GREGORY BENFORD Indeed, the history of 20th century physics was in large measure about how to avoid the infinities t...
GREGORY BENFORD I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects.
GREGORY BENFORD Science fiction writers didn't predict the fade-out of NASA's manned space operations, and t...
GREGORY BENFORD 'Star Trek' is notorious for looting the more thoughtful work of writers for their striking ...
GREGORY BENFORD The moon's closeness is a huge advantage: To make it habitable, we would first have to bombard i...
GREGORY BENFORD A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
GREGORY BENFORD It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far awa...
GREGORY BENFORD Dinner at college high table is one of the legendary experiences of England. I could remember keenly...
GREGORY BENFORD every professor secretly thinks that what the world needs is a good, solid lecture--from him, of cou...
GREGORY BENFORD In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.
GREGORY BENFORD It is one thing to speak of embracing the new, the fresh, the strange. It is another to feel that on...
GREGORY BENFORD In temperate zones, winter is the best insecticide; it keeps the bugs in check. The tropics enjoy no...
GREGORY BENFORD Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter co...
GREGORY BENFORD I'm a very big Faulkner fan 'cause I'm a Southerner.
GREGORY BENFORD This was the 1940s; there was no television. It was a different age - it was not swamped by media; i...
GREGORY BENFORD Like immense time-binding discussions, genres allow ideas to be developed and traded, and for variat...
GREGORY BENFORD Terraforming our moon will take many decades and vast abilities. Before we can begin, we'll have...
GREGORY BENFORD When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.
GREGORY BENFORD Fame is the accumulation of misunderstandings around a well-known name
GREGORY BENFORD Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship b...
DICK GREGORY Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an...
LADY GREGORY If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd h...
DICK GREGORY We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and...
LADY GREGORY Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as b...
LADY GREGORY There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
LADY GREGORY From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after tim...
LADY GREGORY I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tong...
LADY GREGORY The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
LADY GREGORY It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every...
LADY GREGORY I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
LADY GREGORY The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon ...
LADY GREGORY It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the M...
LADY GREGORY What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
LADY GREGORY It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it w...
LADY GREGORY It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
LADY GREGORY It takes madness to find out madness.
LADY GREGORY Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good pla...
LADY GREGORY Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on ear...
LADY GREGORY What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may b...
LADY GREGORY To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of u...
LADY GREGORY My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two mon...
LADY GREGORY Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, ...
GREGORY HARRISON We should be happy. We should be enjoying that there is all this bounty. Somebody can take an iPod a...
GREGORY STOCK The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY People who drink four or more cups of coffee a day - it doesn't matter whether it is caffeinated...
GREGORY STOCK So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but arou...
GREGORY HARRISON You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it ...
DICK GREGORY Never underestimate the value of cold cash.
GREGORY NUNN there is no such thing as a harmless truth.
GREGORY NUNN It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
GREGORY NUNN A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
GREGORY NUNN The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.
GREGORY NUNN All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
GREGORY NUNN When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
PHILIPPA GREGORY Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit...
PHILIPPA GREGORY A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to sup...
PHILIPPA GREGORY I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been...
PHILIPPA GREGORY Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the...
GREGORY MAGUIRE They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I...
GREGORY CORSO If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who sho...
GREGORY NUNN A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.
GREGORY NUNN Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.
GREGORY NUNN Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,
GREGORY NUNN Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bil...
DICK GREGORY The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It sa...
GREGORY NUNN And we love to dance -- especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you...
DICK GREGORY Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
DICK GREGORY Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very mi...
LADY GREGORY Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the ...
GREGORY CLARK I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
DICK GREGORY But no matter which path we take, Nessa, there will always be trying times. Faith is believing that ...
KRISTIANA GREGORY [Nessa] didn’t know how to disagree with a preacher, or if she was even allowed to, so she merely ...
KRISTIANA GREGORY Princess," he said, spreading his arms in a shrug, "how does such a little thing like you get such a...
KRISTIANA GREGORY People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim...
GREGORY MAGUIRE When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty
GREGORY I You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest a...
PHILIPPA GREGORY There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that...
GREGORY PECK As far as protecting yourself against Alzheimer's disease, well, it turns out that fish oil has ...
GREGORY PETSKO The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyra...
LADY GREGORY I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Cool...
LADY GREGORY There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing ...
LADY GREGORY Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that Afric...
DICK GREGORY I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.
GREGORY PECK There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better...
LADY GREGORY To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to ...
GREGORY BATESON I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after d...
DICK GREGORY People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you...
DICK GREGORY Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?
GREGORY PECK You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who k...
DICK GREGORY There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
DICK GREGORY Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
GREGORY PECK Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its wor...
LADY GREGORY Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about co...
DICK GREGORY When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are...
GREGORY MAGUIRE The wall read:
ELPHIE LIVES
OZMA LIVES
THE WIZARD LIVES
and then
EVERYONE L...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I'll compliment on the spot. I want a clean, neat drugstore. I'll check the restrooms and cl...
GREGORY WASSON Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection i...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I can not be the ideal person you are searching for if i am not the ideal person i am searching for.
GREGORY SAYEGH There is a pent-up demand from people who want to clone their dead children.
GREGORY STOCK All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
GREGORY NUNN I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in...
GREGORY PECK There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen---not only on the screen. One of the most lov...
GREGORY PECK We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the ...
DICK GREGORY When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down ...
DICK GREGORY To pursue wisdom is to live in such a way that one is prepared to face death when it comes. (247)
GREGORY BASSHAM Le génie de l'oeuvre de Rowling réside non seulement dans son art de raconter des histoires, mais ...
BASSHAM GREGORY I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt f...
PHILIPPA GREGORY He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.
PHILIPPA GREGORY Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.
GREGORY MAGUIRE We're all going to eventually, even in the developed world, going to have to lose everything tha...
GREGORY STOCK It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I ...
LADY GREGORY We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a g...
DICK GREGORY While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone over...
GREGORY MAGUIRE It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very...
LADY GREGORY The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through th...
GREGORY CORSO I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding o...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena ill...
GREGORY BATESON Synthesis is the process of making a natural product, or some other substance, artificially, in the ...
GREGORY PETSKO When it comes to investments, I have to go to someone else to understand them, but then I have to ma...
GREGORY MEEKS I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, ...
DICK GREGORY I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because th...
DICK GREGORY Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Sometimes thought Liir-his first thought in weeks and weeks-sometimes I hate this marvelous land of ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don't like, out of natural antipathy amplified...
GREGORY MAGUIRE It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthrop...
GREGORY BATESON It's hard to reinvent the wheel with a cop show. But 'Rookie Blue' has a pure emotional ...
GREGORY SMITH Synchrotron light has revolutionized the field of protein crystallography. It has made it possible t...
GREGORY PETSKO Daniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the wo...
PHILIPPA GREGORY The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged...
PHILIPPA GREGORY En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.
PHILIPPA GREGORY I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?
PHILIPPA GREGORY I had meant my promise to George. I had said that I was, before anything else, a Boleyn and a Howard...
PHILIPPA GREGORY Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enem...
PHILIPPA GREGORY He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – w...
PHILIPPA GREGORY Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool...
PHILIPPA GREGORY I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and Englis...
PHILIPPA GREGORY A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.
PHILIPPA GREGORY Jane," I said quietly.
She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer.
"Yes, Mary? F...
PHILIPPA GREGORY If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.
PHILIPPA GREGORY For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
PHILIPPA GREGORY As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves - ...
GREGORY STOCK I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself...
LADY GREGORY What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the co...
LADY GREGORY I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world t...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Missing that time and not practicing since right around Christmas, he's very, very rusty. The abilit...
BRIAN GREGORY He definitely has proved why all the accolades have been thrown his way. He took over that game sing...
BRIAN GREGORY I was with an NBA scout before the game, a buddy of mine. He said this is the second-most athletic t...
BRIAN GREGORY That's a heck of a team we played tonight. Unselfish, 21 assists in 29 baskets. You have to play a v...
BRIAN GREGORY I'd take 10 of him. He's a warrior. He's just a guy who's going to win you a lot of games. You look ...
BRIAN GREGORY He's feeling better. He's had a week off and he's been in a (walking) boot for a week. We have to ma...
BRIAN GREGORY We went in there short-handed. We competed and got it down to the wire. Those are the games where yo...
BRIAN GREGORY Obviously, I'm pleased with the way we played tonight. We got a lot of good basketball from a lot of...
BRIAN GREGORY He's a warrior. He plays multiple positions; he rebounds; he can handle the ball. He's a guy that's ...
BRIAN GREGORY They definitely can. It's going to be as difficult, maybe more difficult, this year, though. The dep...
BRIAN GREGORY There's stuff we need to do, day in and day out, that needs to continue and be supported by business...
BOB GREGORY He is such a leader in all aspects. Guys rally around him. He has a great nose for the football.
BOB GREGORY The problem for state television is that it hasn't been able to find a place, and nor can it, betwee...
BOB GREGORY He brings us great energy. Hopefully, his role will expand. It would be good if he could give (start...
BOB GREGORY They're going to complete balls.
BOB GREGORY It gives us a little incentive.
BOB GREGORY It's a tough deal. It's hard to simulate that in practice.
BOB GREGORY They're young and they're learning, but they're playing hard, and that's all we can ask at this poin...
BOB GREGORY I'm unable to work at the present time and I love working so that's the goal, to get back into a mor...
BOB GREGORY There's no doubt it's a pile of money. But in order to get the message out, we can't do it alone.
BOB GREGORY The biggest development in reproductive biology is the birth-control pill. Nobody ever talks about i...
GREGORY STOCK Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating disease...
GREGORY STOCK We are committed to raising our children as Jews. I knew that it had to start with me at a greater l...
DAVID GREGORY I grew up in the '50s, a tough time for African Americans. I had friends whose fathers would ope...
GREGORY HINES Selective logging negatively impacts many plants and animals and increases erosion and fires. Additi...
GREGORY ASNER People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than tw...
GREGORY ASNER With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or tw...
GREGORY ASNER This method gives us an incredible map of the ubiquitous but very diffuse types of disturbances that...
GREGORY ASNER They were more than double what I expected. It's exciting science, but sobering.
GREGORY ASNER