Snow Crash Quotes

#1. Never been here before. It's like something on the top floor of a luxury high-rise casino in Atlantic City, where they put semi-retarded adults from South Philly after they've blundered into the mega jackpot Hiro Protagonist - Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

#2. Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.

Ned Beauman

#3. This Snow Crash thing
is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?"
Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?

Neal Stephenson

#4. We were given our lives to live to the fullest of our ability; come out of that dark and musty hole and begin to live.

Barbara Hart

#5. The leaf twirls gently
To the dry ground
The flake tumbles lightly
To the snow mound
The lightning falls mightily
To the earth with a crash
And I plummet sleepily
From the fridge to the trash.
Such is nature's way

Francesco Marciuliano

#6. It is always easier to capture eternity in the falling snow or along the coast where the waves crash and in solitary and lonely places. It is the quiet places where it is easiest to feel eternity.

Frederick Lenz

#7. No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man ... ' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.

Meryl Streep

#8. I'm thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn't have stumbled across my strength.

Alex Elle

#9. Ever think of introducing yourself?" Y.T. says.
"Nah," he says, "people always forget names. You can just think of me as that one guy, y'know?

Neal Stephenson

#10. Y'know, watching government regulators trying to keep up with the world is my favorite sport.

Neal Stephenson

#11. If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.

Walt Disney

#12. To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

Thomas Carlyle

#13. This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them.

Neal Stephenson

#14. They say that's what happens when you fall in love. You want to tell people things. You especially want to tell them sad things. Hidden sad things from the past. Something like: I was abandoned at a sweetshop in an unspecified European country.

Nina LaCour

#15. The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

Theodore Roosevelt

#16. I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

John Bunyan

#17. When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

Neal Stephenson