Top 100 Sturgeon's Quotes
#1. 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
#3. When applied to software, Sturgeon's Law is hopelessly optimistic.
Alberto Savinio
#4. The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
Aaron Allston
#5. He had an animal's maturity, in which the play of kittens and puppies no longer has a function. His spectrum lay between terror and contentment.
Theodore Sturgeon
#6. 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
#7. The Scottish Government's international development work began in 2005 with a £3 million budget focused solely on Malawi, reflecting the historic links between our two countries.
Nicola Sturgeon
#8. I won't say I've never felt in Alex Salmond's shadow, but latterly, when Alex was leader, I didn't. It's more about my awareness of the fact I became First Minister during a parliamentary term. That means you're First Minister, but you haven't been elected in your own right as First Minister.
Nicola Sturgeon
#9. Haggis is delicious. It is wonderful. It's spicy, it's tasty, and you get vegetarian haggis as well.
Nicola Sturgeon
#11. Waiting for the end of innocence. And an idiot is waiting for the end of idiocy too, but he's ugly doing it. So each ends himself in the meeting, in exchange for a merging.
Theodore Sturgeon
#12. This is about sending a very strong message that Scotland does want to stay in the European Union and we're an open country, a good place to live, work, study and to do business and it's really important as we take forward what will be challenging work ahead of us, that we send those messages.
Nicola Sturgeon
#13. Living things aren't finished, you see. Everything they have ever been in contact with, each thought they have had, each person they have known - these things are still at work in them; nothing's finished.
("The Graveyard Reader")
Theodore Sturgeon
#15. Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone."
"Shut up shut up ... Everybody's alone."
He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.
Theodore Sturgeon
#16. The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and ... and earns. It's a thing he can't have when he's very young; if he gets it at all, he gets it after a long search and a deep conviction. After that it's truly part of him as long as he lives.
Theodore Sturgeon
#17. It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
Theodore Sturgeon
#18. It was spring, the part of spring where the bursting is done, the held-in pressures of desiccated sap-veins and gum-sealed buds are gone, and all the world's in a rush to be beautiful.
Theodore Sturgeon
#19. Polls can change; people's opinions can change. Voting intentions can change, and I think it would be a silly leader, a silly political party, that would assume that we have it sewn up.
Nicola Sturgeon
#20. Original sin," he said thoughtfully. "That's about Adam an' - no, wait. I remember. Everybody's supposed to be sinful to start with because it takes a sin to get'm started.
Theodore Sturgeon
#21. Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.
Theodore Sturgeon
#22. People don't want to go back to the days, pre-referendum, when the Westminster establishment sidelined and ignored Scotland. They want Scotland's voice to be heard.
Nicola Sturgeon
#23. It's very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quickly become very personalised.
Nicola Sturgeon
#24. We will never vote for the renewal of Trident; that's a decision which will fall to be made in the next Westminster parliament. We will never vote for that.
Nicola Sturgeon
#25. 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
#26. 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
#28. It is hard to overstate the economic importance of the U.S.A. to Scotland, and that makes it essential that we engage with companies and potential investors and get the message across that we are open for business.
Nicola Sturgeon
#29. There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.
Theodore Sturgeon
#30. Scotland's relationship with Malawi is perhaps unique - with almost every town or village in Scotland having some connection.
Nicola Sturgeon
#31. I feel comfortable in a position of leadership, but that's not to say I feel complacent about it. I take it incredibly seriously.
Nicola Sturgeon
#32. Labour long ago realised it could no longer automatically assume that it would win elections in Glasgow and other places where it has taken people's votes for granted for decades - as we have seen across Scotland at local council and Holyrood elections.
Nicola Sturgeon
#33. You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
Theodore Sturgeon
#34. I think the first decision I took when I became a government minister was to reverse the planned closure of Monklands Accident and Emergency. It's an issue close to my heart.
Nicola Sturgeon
#35. I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.
Theodore Sturgeon
#36. Literally every time I'm on camera, as well as there being commentary on what I've said, there'll be commentary on what my hair looked like, what I wear. Often it's written in the most hideous and quite cruel way.
Nicola Sturgeon
#37. Social media is natural to me, and it's a very immediate way of saying something. It's the way politics are done these days. In modern politics, you can't ignore that even if you wanted to. I can't imagine doing politics without it.
Nicola Sturgeon
#38. The U.K.'s debt belongs legally to Westminster, so Scotland, by definition, can't default on it.
Nicola Sturgeon
#39. The only thumbnail you'll get from me is this: no one knows what's really wrong with you but you; no one can find a cure for it but you; no one but you can identify it as a cure; and once you find it, no one but you can do anything about it.
Theodore Sturgeon
#40. That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.
Theodore Sturgeon
#41. I've never had a voice coach, but I am about to name drop horrendously here: I did once get some advice on how to project my voice from Sean Connery, which was lovely. It's all about where you breathe. That's my claim to fame.
Nicola Sturgeon
#42. The truth of the matter is that countries the world over have deficits. Let us remember this about Scotland's deficit: it was not created in an independent Scotland; it was created on Westminster's watch.
Nicola Sturgeon
#43. There's nothing in my background that would have said I was destined to be a senior politician.
Nicola Sturgeon
#44. Evelyn said, "What's it called when a person needs a ... person ... when you want to be touched and the ... two are like one thing and there isn't anything else at all anywhere?"
Alicia, who had read books, thought about it. "Love," she said at length. She swallowed. "It's a madness. It's bad.
Theodore Sturgeon
#45. Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.
Theodore Sturgeon
#46. The assumption that people sometimes make is that I have made a cold, calculated decision to put my career ahead of having family, and that's not true.
Nicola Sturgeon
#47. Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point?
Nicola Sturgeon
#48. The alternative is to locate large deposits of specifically what we need, and extract it in bulk from the earth."
"That's mining," said the Drip. "There is a twenty-third century legend that youth was conscripted to work in mines. Anyhow, all young people were known as miners at one period.
Theodore Sturgeon
#49. Is it not typical that we have a Tory Government that wants, just like its pals in the Labour Party, constantly to talk down Scotland's prospects?
Nicola Sturgeon
#50. I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
Theodore Sturgeon
#51. I'm quite hypercritical of myself. It's a very Scottish thing, always thinking that you've got to be that bit better than everyone else to be good enough.
Nicola Sturgeon
#52. Eddy, I've made my own way since I was a kid, and when I marry it's going to be because the man I love and a girl named Tina are traveling together in the same direction at approximately the same speed, and each under his own power. I won't be steered, towed, nor provided with an icebreaker. ( ... )
Theodore Sturgeon
#53. If Scotland was independent, we'd be the 14th richest country in the developed world.
Nicola Sturgeon
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
Theodore Sturgeon
#58. English businesses would face massive transaction costs if Scotland, their second biggest export market, used a different currency.
Nicola Sturgeon
#59. 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
#60. Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other.
Nicola Sturgeon
#61. Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career.
Nicola Sturgeon
#62. 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
#64. One thing we've learned is that there's not anything that Nigel Farage won't blame on foreigners.
Nicola Sturgeon
#65. 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
#66. Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.
Theodore Sturgeon
#67. There was nothing in my childhood that said, 'She's going to be first minister of the country one day.'
Nicola Sturgeon
#68. My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.
Nicola Sturgeon
#69. There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
Theodore Sturgeon
#71. Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
Theodore Sturgeon
#72. I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
Theodore Sturgeon
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.
Nicola Sturgeon
#77. 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
#78. It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.
Nicola Sturgeon
#79. One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.
Nicola Sturgeon
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. I know you've got to earn people's trust, and you've got to earn it day after day after day.
Nicola Sturgeon
#83. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
Theodore Sturgeon
#92. 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
#93. Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16.
Nicola Sturgeon
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#99. Do I look like one of the most dangerous women in Britain? Come on!
Nicola Sturgeon
#100. 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
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