Quotes About Limitation

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.

I don't want to be an editor! I don't want to direct; I'd be a horrible director. I don't want to write - I have a 'story by' credit on one film I did. And I don't want to edit at all.

I don't get to go out but an hour a day.

But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.

I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place.

I know what it's like to be dependent on the government for food and housing, and what doctor you are going to see, and I know how limiting it can be.

Hubble knows there is interesting stuff out there, but Hubble isn't quite big enough.

They were women not strong enough or smart enough to leave. Women without imagination. So they stayed in Wind Gap and played their teenage lives on an endless loop.

It seemed to me that there was nothing new to be discovered ever again.

Control is out of the question.

Our whole lives we were stuck in a town the size of a postage stamp

There is no need for us to know what we cannot know. There is so much for us to deal with here.

In order to produce it [an infinite series] we would need an infinitely long blackboard, an infinite supply of chalk, and an infinite length of time. We may be censured as too cruel for trying to crush so high a flight of the spirit by such a homely objection; but this is no answer.

You stand in a puddle when I would give you an ocean...*

How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilization--it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.

The big problem with omnipotence is that it leads so easily to overconfidence….

The price of abundance is restraint.

ceiling, then

The physical laws are but the bars of a cage.

Visible light was a mere one octave on a keyboard fifteen meters wide—humanity's slice of reality.

Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.

For like four or five months of my life I was too scared to like, move around and reach out for things because I was worried that I'd my hands would run into glass, like I could reach up and if I reached up and knocked on the air it would make a noise. I couldn't look at the sky because I was worried that I see a crack.