Marcus Chown Quotes

#1. As Douglas Adams wryly observed in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they're not really parallel, and two, they're not really universes!

Marcus Chown

#2. It was like bouncing tennis balls off a mystery piece of furniture and deducing, from the direction in which the balls ricocheted, whether it was a chair or a table or a Welsh dresser.

Marcus Chown

#3. I had no doubt that I could do something, but what, and how? I had no contacts and I believed in nothing. And the obsession with my identity which I had developed in the factory hospital returned with a vengeance. Who was I, how had I come to be?

Ralph Ellison

#4. There's someone in my head and it's not me. PINK FLOYD

Marcus Chown

#5. It's always in your eyes if you love her

Subhasis Das

#6. I support free trade, and so does Donald Trump.

Mike Pence

#7. I like people that like to work the way that I like to work.

David Fincher

#8. But our lives are the reasons why we want to live another time

Robert Smith

#9. Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

Dean Inge

#10. It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.

Odilon Redon

#11. I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done.

Peter Orner

#12. It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the scenery was there from that of his own.

William James

#13. Now, why should the universe be constructed in such a way that atoms acquire the ability to be curious about themselves? That, surely, is one of the great unexplained puzzles of science.

Marcus Chown

#14. Julia, don't cry, love. I'm right here with you, and you're everything to me.

Kahlen Aymes

#15. The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

Michael Beschloss

#16. If Peter has learned one thing about human nature during all his years in hockey, it's that almost everyone regards themselves as a good team player, but that very few indeed understand what that really means.

Fredrik Backman

#17. When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - it's longer than an hour. That's relativity! Albert Einstein

Marcus Chown

#18. I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction

Marcus Chown

#19. If you imagine the difference between an abacus and the world's fastest supercomputer, you would still not have the barest inkling of how much more powerful a quantum computer could be compared with the computers we have today.

Marcus Chown

#20. And when Finn complained at the end of a day that they had not come very far, she said, "What does it matter? We've got all the time in the world."
Which is not always a clever thing to say.

Eva Ibbotson

#21. Terrorism can be commendable, and it can be reprehensible. The terrorism we practice is of the commendable kind for it is directed at the tyrants and the aggressors and the enemies of Allah.

Osama Bin Laden