Top 100 Sturgeon Quotes
#1. The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
Aaron Allston
#2. Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#3. I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of SF is crud.
Theodore Sturgeon
#4. To the extent that the short story is an art, Sturgeon is the American short-story writer.
Samuel R. Delany
#5. Shah Ismail had fallen victim to the rarely used, great Uzbek anti-Shiite potato and sturgeon curse, which required quantities of potatoes and caviar which were not easy to amass, and a unity of purpose among the Sunni witches which was likewise difficult to achieve.
Salman Rushdie
#8. When applied to software, Sturgeon's Law is hopelessly optimistic.
Alberto Savinio
#9. The economic basis on which Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish nationalists made the case for separation was based on an oil price much higher than it is at the moment, so there will be no case for it.
Michael Gove
#10. On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and sturgeon and for my mother to object when the 1 P.M. Giants game began.
Jane Leavy
#11. I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.
Anton Chekhov
#12. The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of history combined. This seemingly simple article of diet has taken its place in the world along with pearls, sables, old silver, and Cellini cups.
James Beard
#13. Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.
Nicola Sturgeon
#14. Scotch beef, salmon and shellfish are recognised the world over for their excellence and Scottish provenance. People recognise the Scottish brand. They associate the country with quality food and drink, and clearly other Scottish sectors, such as dairy, can benefit from that, too.
Nicola Sturgeon
#15. I am quite driven. I know what I think, and I know what I want to achieve, but I also hope that people who are asked to describe me would describe me as pretty down-to-earth, loyal, friendly. The more experience I have got in politics, I think the more I have allowed me to shine through.
Nicola Sturgeon
#16. Vote SNP for a party that always stands up for Scotland, that is stronger for Scotland, and a government that will keep the country moving in the right direction.
Nicola Sturgeon
#17. I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
Theodore Sturgeon
#18. Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
Theodore Sturgeon
#20. There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
Theodore Sturgeon
#21. My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.
Nicola Sturgeon
#22. There was nothing in my childhood that said, 'She's going to be first minister of the country one day.'
Nicola Sturgeon
#23. Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.
Theodore Sturgeon
#24. If Scotland was independent, we'd be the 14th richest country in the developed world.
Nicola Sturgeon
#25. One thing we've learned is that there's not anything that Nigel Farage won't blame on foreigners.
Nicola Sturgeon
#27. I have said repeatedly I do want to take longer to eliminate the deficit than the other parties. Because I want to see us have the ability to invest more in our economy, in our public services, and in lifting people out of poverty.
Nicola Sturgeon
#28. Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career.
Nicola Sturgeon
#29. Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other.
Nicola Sturgeon
#30. Because of lower life expectancy in Scotland - something that we are working hard to improve - the average woman will get £11,000 less in pension payments than counterparts in the rest of the U.K., even though she will pay exactly the same in contributions.
Nicola Sturgeon
#31. English businesses would face massive transaction costs if Scotland, their second biggest export market, used a different currency.
Nicola Sturgeon
#33. Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
Theodore Sturgeon
#34. I'm the leader of the SNP. I think you would expect me to say I would vote SNP in whatever constituency I lived in.
Nicola Sturgeon
#35. Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the same budget policies as the Tories.
Nicola Sturgeon
#36. I think it is important the communities are listened to and that their voice is heard, particularly with local government boundaries more than parliamentary boundaries, because you are talking very much about communities. It can be a very emotive thing.
Nicola Sturgeon
#37. Scotland has been re-energized, and people all over the country have become involved in - and informed about - politics and government in a way that I have never known before. In short, we have put ourselves firmly in control of our country.
Nicola Sturgeon
#38. Do I look like one of the most dangerous women in Britain? Come on!
Nicola Sturgeon
#40. At these big set-piece events like the leaders' debates, that exterior of calm and serenity is nothing compared to what's going on inside most of the time.
Nicola Sturgeon
#41. He slept like an animal, well and lightly, faced in the opposite direction from that of a man; for a man going to sleep is about to escape into it while animals are prepared to escape out of it.
Theodore Sturgeon
#42. You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.
Theodore Sturgeon
#43. Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16.
Nicola Sturgeon
#44. Scottish politics, U.K. politics, is not really like American politics in this respect. Not everybody is absolutely obsessed with image. I'm not saying the United States is obsessed with image.
Nicola Sturgeon
#45. An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
Theodore Sturgeon
#46. As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.
Nicola Sturgeon
#47. I do struggle to identify an occasion when I was held back because I'm a woman ... You don't think about it at the time, but looking back at it, of course.
Nicola Sturgeon
#49. If something can be proven to work, we should try it ... Making sure that our young folk get the best education is the only thing that matters to me, and if something can be shown to work in doing that or if something's worth trying to do that, then I'll certainly be in the market for it.
Nicola Sturgeon
#50. If your pal or neighbour is in the SNP, you're more likely to listen to them than if you just turn on the telly and see me or Alex. The growth of membership is building a politically engaged community base that hasn't been there in my lifetime.
Nicola Sturgeon
#51. A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.
Theodore Sturgeon
#53. Sitting there most of the night," she said, "I had a crazy kind of image. Do you think two sick twisted 'trees ever made bonsai out of one another?
Theodore Sturgeon
#54. Of course, aid is only one small part of international development. Some of the greatest benefits to the world's poorest can be achieved through policy changes by developed countries.
Nicola Sturgeon
#55. I know you've got to earn people's trust, and you've got to earn it day after day after day.
Nicola Sturgeon
#56. My message is a simple one - the E.U. is not perfect, but Scotland's interests are best served by being a member.
Nicola Sturgeon
#57. I thought if people were going to talk about what I wear, wouldn't it be good if they were talking about who designed it, who made it and if that's a Scottish company, so teaming up with Totty Rocks has been fantastic.
Nicola Sturgeon
#58. I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland.
Nicola Sturgeon
#59. U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty; that is beyond dispute.
Nicola Sturgeon
#60. Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
Theodore Sturgeon
#61. Most politicians come into politics because they want to make a difference; we just have different ideas how to do it.
Nicola Sturgeon
#62. People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that.
Nicola Sturgeon
#63. I was studious and bookish. Not just as a child but also as a teenager. I took myself too seriously.
Nicola Sturgeon
#64. It is one of the little known facts about modern Scottish politics that it is not quite as cut-throat as people think it is.
Nicola Sturgeon
#65. This government and the party that I lead will continue to argue an alternative to the Tory-Labour austerity.
Nicola Sturgeon
#66. I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.
Theodore Sturgeon
#67. I'll be arguing for Scotland to vote to stay in the E.U.
Nicola Sturgeon
#68. There is nothing in your background that inherently holds you back or means you can't achieve what others can achieve. You are the master of your own fate, and if you work hard, you can do what you want.
Nicola Sturgeon
#70. The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
Theodore Sturgeon
#71. The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments.
Nicola Sturgeon
#72. I'm manifestly not the same as Alex Salmond. I'm a different gender, for example ... I'm being flippant, but maybe this is a partly gender-driven difference: I'm very keen that we find a way of reaching out across party divides to find things we agree on, as well as the things we disagree on.
Nicola Sturgeon
#73. Governments in countries across the world have a duty to do everything possible to keep the public safe from terrorist attacks.
Nicola Sturgeon
#75. Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.
Theodore Sturgeon
#76. Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place.
Nicola Sturgeon
#77. Clearly, any issues about breaching of expenses rules should be properly investigated.
Nicola Sturgeon
#78. One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.
Nicola Sturgeon
#79. I am quite a shy person. You say that to people, and they say, 'You do interviews, speeches. How can you be shy?' But, fundamentally, I am.
Nicola Sturgeon
#80. Trespass, the outdoor clothing company based in the South Side, is run by two of the nicest guys and proudest Glaswegians you could meet, Afzal and Akmal Khushi.
Nicola Sturgeon
#82. Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.
Theodore Sturgeon
#83. I came into politics because of my opposition to what a Tory Government was doing to the community I grew up in.
Nicola Sturgeon
#84. I believe we should support people to live, and I am therefore in favour of good quality palliative care.
Nicola Sturgeon
#85. I am privileged to count many Muslims among my friends - some are amongst my closest friends.
Nicola Sturgeon
#86. If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.
Nicola Sturgeon
#87. I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.
Theodore Sturgeon
#88. It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.
Nicola Sturgeon
#90. So when it happens, don't just say Damn and forget it. Stop a minute and think it through. Somebody's going to change the face of the earth and it could be you.
'It Was Nothing
Really!', 1969
Theodore Sturgeon
#91. A whole range of things are done to ensure services remain safe and sustainable because that is the absolute paramount duty of the health board.
Nicola Sturgeon
#92. I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
Theodore Sturgeon
#94. I wish we lived in a world where how you looked or what you wore wasn't an issue for men or women, and it's by and large not an issue for men, so I wish it wasn't an issue for women, but it is.
Nicola Sturgeon
#97. Ask the next question, and the one that follows that, and the one that follows that. It's the symbol of everything humanity has ever created, and is the reason it has been created.
Theodore Sturgeon
#98. Talent is really important in politics, but experience is also really important.
Nicola Sturgeon
#99. I think the fact that people are even talking about the prospect of the Tories coming second is less about anything the Tories have done and more about the failures of Labour to set out, in any kind of coherent sense, what it's for anymore.
Nicola Sturgeon
#100. The oil and gas sector in the North Sea does have a strong future if we do the right things now, but we've got to make sure that the infrastructure is right to support the sector, but also to support, over the next few years, diversification as well.
Nicola Sturgeon
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