Charles H. Moore quotes

Charles H. Moore quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“It's kind of pathetic actually that we are all sitting here talking about Forth. It is not the wave of the future. It's never been the wave of the future. It's not within our power to make it the wave of the future.”
-- Charles H. Moore

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“I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.”
“I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.
“There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.”
“You and I are just like a blade of grass sitting here; we are going to wither and die. "But the word of the Lord endures forever"”
“When I'm 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, I'll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will say to me, 'After all this time?' And I will say, 'Always.”
“There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.”
“But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.”
“Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.”

Source : Abbie Hoffman (1968). “Revolution for the hell of it”
“Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.”
“My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.”

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