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Quotes About Neal

Finally, in graphic novels and video games, SF is, of course, dominant.
~ Neal Stephenson
remember that "layman" is just a polite word for "idiot.
~ Neal Stephenson
anchored ships and over the shallow bar had been dangerous, but
~ Neal Stephenson
the result of her having filled out a form, years ago, when she'd joined Lyke, and having clicked the "submit" button. Which, come to think of it, was a pretty strange bit of semantics
~ Neal Stephenson
L1, by process of elimination," Luisa said drily, and laughed. "You space people love to count down, I know your ways." "It's
~ Neal Stephenson
All birds are bastards.
~ Neal Stephenson
He thinks that there has been some routine polite conversation along the way, but there is never any point in actually monitoring that kind of thing.
~ Neal Stephenson
He was a tiny guy, deeply embedded in a leather chair, like a mouse in a baseball mitt.
~ Neal Stephenson
but not subjecting him to the tiresome demands of polite social interaction.
~ Neal Stephenson
The big red-handled blade switch on the wall of the mad-scientist lab.
~ Neal Stephenson
the Sword fled, and would have vanished utterly if the Pope had not granted them refuge in the ranks of the Teutonic Knights.
~ Neal Stephenson
black chariot of pepperoni fire.
~ Neal Stephenson
they didn't even try to arrest her in a gentlemanly way.
~ Neal Stephenson
KETCH, JACK: Name given to executioners.
~ Neal Stephenson
Waterhouse is going to fix the church's organ. This project will be sure to have side benefits for his own organ, a single-pipe instrument that needs attention just as badly.
~ Neal Stephenson
ENOCH ROUNDS THE CORNER JUST as the executioner raises the noose above the woman's head.
~ Neal Stephenson
The rest is drowned out by sound breaking in through his earphones, coming in from Reality:
~ Neal Stephenson
He nodded. "When the shutter opened to capture that first perfect image of the eclipse, magic ceased to function across all human societies.
~ Neal Stephenson
he was a horse-fancier, and so this part of the anecdote was never related without many details concerning this horse's ancestry, which was more distinguished than that of most human beings)
~ Neal Stephenson
Well, thank you for making it so clear why I should be miserable," Randy says forbearingly.
~ Neal Stephenson
could jab my thumb with it and draw blood. The brown smear across the top of this page can be tested in any twenty-first-century DNA lab. Compare
~ Neal Stephenson
He is flitting and hopping about in the lobby like a sparrow whose nest had just been blown down in a windstorm.
~ Neal Stephenson
It is only a certain type of mind that scorns what is known by all and treats secrets as jewels.
~ Neal Stephenson
added. Apparently a mere two-cab caravan was not enough to trigger Ariane's anxieties, and so the one carrying
~ Neal Stephenson