Ringworld Niven Quotes

#1. I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

Al Pacino

#2. A woman on a Southwest Airlines flight gave birth to a baby. As soon as he was born, the baby said, 'I had more leg room in the womb.'

Conan O'Brien

#3. but a clean knife still makes a painful wound.

Erin Watt

#4. When you walk into a store and you want to buy something, you give them cash and they sell it to you. But very often, you walk into our "store" and you want something - a credit card, maybe, or a loan - and very often the answer is "No," even if you're a large corporation.

Jamie Dimon

#5. Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#6. Exercise is wonderful," said Louis. "I could sit and watch it all day.

Larry Niven

#7. All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.

Daphne Du Maurier

#8. A lot of people think I grew up with just my brother and me, but mom was there even when she wasn't. We had a good household.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#9. Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other ... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.

Mark Nepo

#10. Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.

Marissa Meyer

#12. Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.

Maria Montessori

#13. Et tu, Brute? --Then fall, Caesar!

William Shakespeare

#14. The whole environment out there is a living, breathing almost conscious being that is saying something to us human beings. The forests can't act but they can inspire us and they inspire people like myself and money others in the conservation movement to act on their behalf.

Ian Cohen

#15. The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.

Zhuangzi

#16. Intuitive responses are responses which originate from joy.

Sylvia Clare