One kind of artist is always striving to annihilate the past, to make the world anew in each new wor...
STEVEN STUCKY Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the fr...
STEVEN STUCKY My own personal melting pot has no room for Hendrix or heavy metal, filled as it is with European an...
STEVEN STUCKY Whatever the raw material, the material itself is unimportant until it's catalyzed by emotional ...
STEVEN STUCKY Yehudi Wyner has reinvented for himself a Romanticism that somehow manages to seem like a step forwa...
STEVEN STUCKY On my mental iPod, I always have Stravinsky and Ravel.
STEVEN STUCKY We are concerned with that curious bunch of nonconformists who explain their participation in negati...
STEVEN BIKO Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands ...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD I'm very fond of the British cinema. I'm a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I ac...
STEVEN BAUER The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industr...
STEVEN LEVY Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
STEVEN PINKER I think I look really weird with short hair. So I figured if I've got a mustache, I think it loo...
STEVEN ADAMS The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity,...
STEVEN COJOCARU No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel...
STEVEN PINKER Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street,...
STEVEN SEAGAL No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our ow...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by ...
STEVEN SINOFSKY I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push ...
STEVEN PINKER Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get...
STEVEN COJOCARU Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their ...
STEVEN BIKO When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching...
STEVEN WRIGHT Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare...
STEVEN RATTNER So what's in a name? The answer, we have seen, is, a great deal. In the sense of a morphological pro...
STEVEN PINKER I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.
STEVEN WRIGHT Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
STEVEN WRIGHT 'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is...
STEVEN SODERBERGH I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.
STEVEN CHU You have to remember that not every creature that was evolving left behind its skull or its tools fo...
STEVEN PINKER Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies o...
STEVEN SPIELBERG The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded wit...
STEVEN BOCHCO The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and univ...
STEVEN PINKER I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your who...
STEVEN COJOCARU I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been chan...
STEVEN COJOCARU I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things ...
STEVEN TYLER Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
STEVEN WRIGHT If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you str...
STEVEN WRIGHT Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speec...
STEVEN PINKER The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalis...
STEVEN PINKER A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space...
STEVEN WRIGHT If you cannot peacefully coexist with many different cultures and beliefs, then you should probably ...
STEVEN MAGEE Many past mistakes paves the road to future discoveries.
STEVEN MAGEE There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments.
STEVEN MAGEE An electrical utility company that blatantly lies to law enforcement about an electrical fraud resea...
STEVEN MAGEE Understanding why so many western women are giving birth to unnaturally large babies that either dam...
STEVEN MAGEE The USA is corrupt in many areas with law enforcement and utility companies being two of those.
STEVEN MAGEE There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surv...
STEVEN MAGEE The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time wher...
STEVEN MAGEE Many mistakes makes for a very smart person.
STEVEN MAGEE What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the bou...
STEVEN JOHNSON This man has conquered the world! What have you done?"
The philosopher replied without an insta...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when ...
STEVEN MAGEE Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
STEVEN SPIELBERG The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that...
STEVEN PINKER A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for ...
STEVEN BIKO We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.
STEVEN SQUYRES The police seem to be learning the hard way that the more abusive they are to people, the less peopl...
STEVEN MAGEE Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have com...
STEVEN BIKO The backbone of the electrical grid is largely massive numbers of steam driven engines that turn ele...
STEVEN MAGEE Chance favors the connected mind.
STEVEN JOHNSON Very few people realize that the ionizing radiation levels on a commercial jet airplane at cruising ...
STEVEN MAGEE The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossibl...
STEVEN MOFFAT I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.
STEVEN WRIGHT I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop,...
STEVEN MAGEE The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy ...
STEVEN JAMES Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thought for a moment longer, then scowled. On se...
STEVEN ERIKSON Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
STEVEN SPIELBERG Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
STEVEN WRIGHT An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
STEVEN WEINBERG Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man g...
STEVEN MOFFAT Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the
initiative and thus com...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life.
The Doctor: Believe me... I...
STEVEN MOFFAT The most deformed AC voltage sine wave that I have seen in my career was at a high altitude astronom...
STEVEN MAGEE The toxicity of an electrical wiring error is a function of the dirty electricity and the electrical...
STEVEN MAGEE Most people do not realize that they are one car crash away from death.
STEVEN MAGEE When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repet...
STEVEN KOTLER It is a sad state of affairs in the USA that for the sick and the poor that jail offers better benef...
STEVEN MAGEE I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parti...
STEVEN MAGEE Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.
STEVEN ERIKSON We're all stories, in the end.
STEVEN MOFFAT Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.
STEVEN BRUST When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run ...
STEVEN MOFFAT He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been ...
STEVEN MILLHAUSER Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transform...
STEVEN JAMES When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that...
STEVEN HALPERN I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
STEVEN SPIELBERG If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.
STEVEN GILBERT With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil th...
STEVEN WEINBERG You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
STEVEN WRIGHT Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
STEVEN SODERBERGH It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to...
STEVEN SEAGAL Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
STEVEN TYLER A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD Black holes are where God divided by zero.
STEVEN WRIGHT Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things...
STEVEN WEINBERG One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it h...
STEVEN DEITZ Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity... If you wanted to run the blender, yo...
STEVEN WRIGHT The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.
STEVEN CHU Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should reme...
STEVEN ROGERS I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches.
STEVEN WRIGHT I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine.
STEVEN WRIGHT A people who's primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any ti...
STEVEN DEITZ People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usua...
STEVEN SPIELBERG My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you l...
STEVEN SPIELBERG So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It'...
STEVEN CHU Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is on...
STEVEN PINKER If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Ros...
STEVEN ADLER Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with in...
STEVEN PINKER Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a prete...
STEVEN PINKER Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to c...
STEVEN SPIELBERG 20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than t...
STEVEN PINKER Sometimes, I seem to be only able to actually move and get going with things on the razor edge of po...
STEVEN HALL My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
STEVEN WRIGHT What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is,...
STEVEN LEVITAN For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfe...
STEVEN PRICE Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I’ve forgotten this b...
STEVEN WRIGHT Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate...
STEVEN SINOFSKY Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could b...
STEVEN TYLER When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul All...
STEVEN PINKER The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of m...
STEVEN SPIELBERG The amateur tweets. The pro works.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.
STEVEN WRIGHT Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, fev...
STEVEN BLUM Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescrib...
STEVEN BLUM The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.
STEVEN WRIGHT I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or...
STEVEN STRAIT I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of vi...
STEVEN SPIELBERG There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The ...
STEVEN PINKER I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the ...
STEVEN CHU Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chai...
STEVEN JOHNSON One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they ...
STEVEN SEAGAL Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that ...
STEVEN SEAGAL If God dropped acid, would he see people?
STEVEN WRIGHT If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News...
STEVEN WEBER I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a res...
STEVEN LEVITAN I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop,...
STEVEN WRIGHT My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced ...
STEVEN CHU I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of t...
STEVEN WRIGHT Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,...
STEVEN PINKER Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oa...
STEVEN PINKER I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral ...
STEVEN WRIGHT Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less i...
STEVEN WEBER I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of ...
STEVEN JOHNSON I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this...
STEVEN ADLER Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's...
STEVEN WEBER I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
STEVEN WRIGHT Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want ...
STEVEN WEINBERG Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination t...
STEVEN PINKER The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.
STEVEN GERRARD If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, d...
STEVEN WRIGHT Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just anothe...
STEVEN SODERBERGH I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second li...
STEVEN TYLER When I was growing up, you would put on a KISS record or a UFO or Aerosmith record and listen to it ...
STEVEN ADLER My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last ...
STEVEN TYLER You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. ...
STEVEN SEAGAL We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning a...
STEVEN PINKER The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them th...
STEVEN SPIELBERG If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes fro...
STEVEN JOHNSON I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
STEVEN WRIGHT I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an...
STEVEN WRIGHT I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
STEVEN WRIGHT I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
STEVEN WRIGHT I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
STEVEN SPIELBERG Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me.
STEVEN ADLER It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And t...
STEVEN ADLER I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.
STEVEN ADLER You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you hav...
STEVEN ADLER I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty year...
STEVEN ADLER The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N' Roses. I wo...
STEVEN ADLER You gotta pick yourself up. Sometimes you just gotta do it over and over, but you gotta do it. You c...
STEVEN ADLER You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.
STEVEN ADLER Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrum...
STEVEN ADLER Loud is a way of life.
STEVEN ADLER The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that ...
STEVEN ADLER Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling r...
STEVEN ADLER I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look f...
STEVEN ADLER I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.
STEVEN ADLER Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my g...
STEVEN ADLER If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, ...
STEVEN ADLER I look in the mirror and see a few scars, but I like myself.
STEVEN ADLER It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.
STEVEN ADLER GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New ...
STEVEN ADLER Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band ne...
STEVEN ADLER Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.
STEVEN ADLER A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
STEVEN WRIGHT I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I f...
STEVEN SODERBERGH Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
STEVEN WRIGHT As powerful as is our soul's call, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. We...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and ev...
STEVEN COJOCARU In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be...
STEVEN WRIGHT I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.
STEVEN TYLER Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed m...
STEVEN COJOCARU The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; tha...
STEVEN PINKER In our experience at Safeway, we're confident that we can actually improve the quality of health...
STEVEN BURD It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.
STEVEN WRIGHT Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
STEVEN WRIGHT I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
STEVEN WRIGHT