Cop Quotes - Page 2

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!'

Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are.

The crowd...a cacophony of colour

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.

My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

It is better to invert reality than to copy it.

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

I've never really tried to copy anyone, I like to have my own style.

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.