Steve Merrick Quotes

Any system that contradicts itself can never be wrong, and welcome to the world of contradictions ... ~ Steve Merrick

Look in Kego's defense he was only Nine and a half when he took command of the ship and she had been put way off course by her captain and you lot would all be dead if it wasn't for him.
Jenny Smith In The Navigator by Steve Merrick ~ Steve Merrick

Where we are as a species is very far away from where I am as an individual, and I am many miles away from where I want to be. ~ Steve Merrick

Gadzooks you plagiaries of truth, for twas foreseen by mine own eyes that this world is flat and straddled by two platypus's being ridden by a sea horse ... ~ Steve Merrick

Pat the little Spaceman on the head and get him to shut up, so we can get on with the important works of making the very same mistakes we made on planet Earth in the first place! ~ Steve Merrick

Psychology and art are never easy bedfellows. ~ Steve Merrick

Meanwhile in the valley, Alice was having a confusing conversation with a starling. ~ Steve Merrick

That is what is normal, it's an every day millisecond by millisecond miracle."

Zhi Wawa in Charlie Versus The Quantum Memory. ~ Steve Merrick

The real problem is not in the Quran itself, but the accepted element of divine revelation that has enabled successive and rather dodgy regimes to use the Quran as an argument against freedom of speech or thought or freedom of anything. Thats the larger problem because if you walk into the global and deny freedom on the grounds that god didn't predict its evolution as a concept, then you can pretty much read a call for violence into a pingu anime or a winnie the pooh book ~ Steve Merrick

Parliament/Congress.
less entertaining than paint drying, but more dangerous than any minefield is. ~ Steve Merrick

I think academics and intellectuals are the natural enemies of imagination and intelligence. ~ Steve Merrick

Party politics is nothing more than the collision of mass preconceptions. ~ Steve Merrick

Well if its the right way round she should push thats all. ~ Steve Merrick

Death stalks all of us by default. ~ Steve Merrick

With the caution of a gazelle I looked to the closed door ahead of it, and feeling a tickle of fear in my knotted stomach I entered this tube. ~ Steve Merrick

Corruption.
like anything it is systematic, and without a level of corruption ost societies would seize up, the levels of accepted/expected political corruption don't even raise eyebrows anymore, especially when it runs parallel to our economic systems, so I guess we are stuck with it. ~ Steve Merrick

It's all about emotions, they rule us all. The way we perceive reality is linked to how happy or sad we are, it even affects our perception of time, so this is an emotional problem and I am unable to fathom it at all. ~ Steve Merrick

Think of humanity and you see an idea, and think idea and you see imagination, and imagination is everything guys n gals ~ Steve Merrick

It looks as if British democracy died a few years ago, and nobody noticed. ~ Steve Merrick

These hooves were made for walking. ~ Steve Merrick

Charles Darwin's only mistake was in not being a physicist, because the entire process of evolution started before our planet formed, with the event called the big bang, at this point our knowledge is such that I can hazard this further observation, all of the building blocks of life started at that moment, and that is how far we can back track this process of evolution. ~ Steve Merrick

I have zero respect for knowledge, that's what computers are for. Imagination is the kicker because imagination can extrapolate, create and solve, Knowledge is just facts and shit. Mostly irrelevant.
Kego O'Grady in The Navigator By Steve Merrick ~ Steve Merrick

Hmm what wine is this love thing that your species has, not necessary even on a good day, but like a mob of maniac limpets you cling to it. ~ Steve Merrick

Politics.
It used to mean something, but it is now merely an abstract part of the entertainments industry. ~ Steve Merrick

Well who can truly understand politics any more, ever since they all went professional it's all sort of blurred with the entertainments industry. ~ Steve Merrick

When broken minds embrace any hypothetical god then what you get is a proportionally broken result. ~ Steve Merrick

Donald Trump is nuts, his party is chock full of nuts too, and that is bad news for Americans with a nut allergy. ~ Steve Merrick

That is the way of science and art, it is beloved by your societies and criminalised by your cultures. ~ Steve Merrick

Zoom Zoom said Mr Photon oblivious to the mere mortal problems of math ~ Steve Merrick

I would wish you gods speed but I don't want you to waste time looking for him. ~ Steve Merrick

Now that would be a good way to face Armageddon, fighting it every step of the way, or should you choose to be an Ostrich, well you can go out with your head buried in the sand. ~ Steve Merrick

I don't know how far it got, but it looked pretty flightworthy from where I was standing, ~ Steve Merrick

Is that Saturn. I thought the rings would be bigger?! ~ Steve Merrick

Politicians? You can't vote for them and you can't strangle them. ~ Steve Merrick

Being quite a Darwinian creature feature I have to add, that only the fittest of survival will finish this book anyway, ~ Steve Merrick

NONE OF THIS IS REAL EXCEPT THE LESSONS YOU LEARN ~ Steve Merrick

If planet Earth could get legal aid, then humanity would be facing the biggest malpractice suite in this spiral arm of our universe. ~ Steve Merrick

It just makes more sense if you base your personal life logic on science. ~ Steve Merrick

Is it wrong of me to propose a ceasefire agreement between humans and whales and dolphins, I know it is in actuality a one sided massacre, but so was Bosnia and there the ceasefire is holding, so would it be nice to have a declaration backing a ceasefire between us mammals? ~ Steve Merrick

I have found repeatedly hitting my head with a mallet doesn't help at all, so i am open to suggestions. ~ Steve Merrick

London? It's a city full of sleepwalkers chasing other people's dreams. ~ Steve Merrick

Democracy. For something that has no specific dictionary definition, it is as open to interpretation as any holy book is, and as wide open to as many translative abuses, yet without any definitive definition the process means something very different to every person it impacts upon. I would add that until we get an accurate definition the word is meaningless, and when the process is so open to interpretation that the Koch Bros can buy it, legally, without any fuss, that action in itself is not democratic, but neither is it illegal? All that before i hit the dangers of party politics ... ~ Steve Merrick

The path of life on our planet and maybe many others does not need a divinity to thrive, it needs no excuse to live, owes no debt to the universe because it is a part of the universe, no driving force other than the primal forces of physics and chemistry are needed, those two sets created biology, and if you backtrack all of the life on the Earth, you inevitably end up looking at stardust. ~ Steve Merrick

Ignoring global warming is like crossing a road blindfolded. ~ Steve Merrick

My mind is like the Titanic, to many brain cells for the life boats. ~ Steve Merrick

No, It's not failed, it's correcting itself through failure,
Kego O'Grady in the Navogator by Steve Merrick. ~ Steve Merrick

The ancient greeks called all of those stars and planets in our night sky. "Wanderers." I don't think anyone has come up with a better name for all of those lovely suns. ~ Steve Merrick

How did I get where I am. If your answer is anything but dumb luck then you are sadly deluding yourself. ~ Steve Merrick

MY GAZELLES ARE ALL IN ROW, (But they run off a lot)
Kego O'Grady ~ Steve Merrick

No Navigator, we are just going with the flow of it all.
007 In The Navigator by Steve Merrick ~ Steve Merrick

If only I had objected harder, or ordered him or something. It could have been different. It should have been different. None of this was meant to happen this way ... ~ Steve Merrick

Talking Sea horses would be ridiculous ~ Steve Merrick

You may have bats in your belfry but I am more concerned by what may be buried in your cellar. ~ Steve Merrick

Guess what? Science like gravity doesn't care what the sex of the discoverers is ... ~ Steve Merrick

Finding a protest without placards is like photographing a hippie without a bong. ~ Steve Merrick

Theres nothing more fun than a kitten in zero gravity. ~ Steve Merrick

Ok is there anyone here who isn't injured?" She let the silence last a bit longer theatrically, then laughed. "Why are we still here?" Nods of confusion and one derisory snort later she laughed again. "Ok are we or are we not frakking commonwealth soldiers? Have we or have we not survived repeated balls ups throughout all of our careers." One wolf whistle and a lot of nods. "Are we going to give up. ~ Steve Merrick

Ok if they had a problem their system of parties basically took polarised positions about it, and if you look at them like they were an atom, then call the problem the protons, and the parties electrons, all that they could do was orbit the problem doing absolutely nothing about it. Are you following my thought chain here? ~ Steve Merrick

If its about the existence of god, you may as well ask me, what the square root of an elephant is? ~ Steve Merrick

Being a hermit involves a lot of what we would call routine tasks taken to an extreme, even the morning flush of the toilet becomes a ritual. ~ Steve Merrick

Writing is like headlice, impossible to fully cure. ~ Steve Merrick

...reading literature could teach you about the "universal human experience". Maybe you'll never hunt another man through the jungle. Maybe you won't climb Mount Kilimanjaro or watch a bullfight in the afternoon - you don't have to. The world's a big place. You can't do or be everything, nor should you. Life is bigger than any one man. But when you read about other people's lives, when you read their stories, you catch a glimpse of a world bigger than your own. You maay never travel a hundred miles from where you were born, but if you read great stories, you'll get to see the entire world. You'll enter into the Great Mystery. ~ Steve Dublanica

The only people who experience no resistance are the unambitious and the dead. If you feel no resistance in your life, you need greater goals or you need to check your pulse. Life and movement come with resistance. Don't be discouraged by it, be strengthened by it. ~ Steve Maraboli

I think that the way that Steve Jobs sought after love was to create products that people loved. And when people loved his products, in turn they - he felt like they loved him. ~ Ashton Kutcher

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are. ~ David Attenborough

Walter Isaacson, who ate dinner with the Jobs family while researching his biography of Steve Jobs, told Bilton that, "No one ever pulled out an iPad or computer. The kids did not seem addicted at all to devices." It seemed as if the people producing tech products were following the cardinal rule of drug dealing: never get high on your own supply. ~ Adam Alter

The underlying foundation of all religion is performance - whether it's a tribal dance around a campfire to satisfy the fire god, or a dead religious activity performed week after week by an evangelical Christian with the intent of impressing his God. It's all religious performance, and God isn't impressed by our performance. What impresses Him is faith. ~ Steve McVey

This was how it had to be. The city centre had to be for all religions, and so the ubiquitous, shinning, grey had quickly become the nascent colour. Whereas the the Ardoyne rejoced in the tricolours and every shade of green, so too the Shankill kept their houses and kerbs in the Union Jack, and each side of the divided city painted their gables and drenched themselves in the rich colours which formed their history, their protection, their identity, their, and they lived under the terrible weight that came with it. In Belfast, colour was joyful, territorial, and frightening. And so the heart of the city embraced a comforting blanket of grey. ~ Steve Cavanagh

My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat. ~ Steve Sabol

A man could build whatever monuments he wanted in the worlds of politics, sports, entertainment, and business, but if they come at the expense of his children, then he has failed. Once the attention fades and the crowds stop cheering his name and his accomplishments are little more than fine print in a history book, the only thing that truly survives him is his child. That is his legacy. That is what defines him. All else is but a footnote. ~ Steve Pemberton

'Because I said so!' They are the most underrated four words. ~ Steve Schirripa

Even on the road, we continued our efforts to conceive. Part of our boy-baby effort was the need to try right at the time of ovulation. I packed an ovulation kit with me everywhere. When the strip turned blue, it meant we had a twenty-four- to forty-eight-hour window to get busy.
At first I had Steve convinced that women ovulated twenty or thirty times a month. But I couldn't trick him forever. At some point he realized that that was impossible. ~ Terri Irwin

Sit up, speak with boldness about what you know, and add value that would be absent from the table if you remained silent. Take your opportunity to add your unique talents and skills to the mix. ~ Steve Harvey

Old-growth forests met no needs. They simply were, in a way that bore no questions about purpose or value. They could not be created by men. They could not even be understood by men. They had too many parts that were interconnected in too many ways. Change one part and everything else would change, but in ways that were unpredictable and often inexplicable. This unpredictability removed such forests from the realm of human perspectives and values. The forest did not need to justify or explain itself. It existed outside of instrumental human considerations. ~ Steve Olson

I just had a romance that I really care about, a lot-I mean, a lot-go up in smoke. Because of the stress, and the sort of other woman that Macintosh is. ~ Steve Jobs

My favorite food is Ramen. ~ Steve Aoki

As a shareholder I have expressed my frustration with not getting more information about revenue and margins from the cloud. ~ Steve Ballmer

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right ~ Steve Jobs

Bob Cavallo remembers early on in the process, 'We were at odds with each other. Our contract was up; five years had gone by since Purple Rain. We met at the Four Seasons with his lawyer and his accountant, me and Steve Fargnoli to discuss some kind of rapprochement because he had fired us. Basically he said, "I'll work with you again but you've got to help me make this movie." I read the treatment and said, "This could be an interesting thing," and I said, "I'll try to put you together with some young hip writers and maybe we can come up with a script quickly, 'cause this is pretty detailed." And he went, "What are you talking about? That is the script." It was thirty pages. And he said, "I'm going to shoot it, I know exactly how to do it." So I said, "Maybe we could get this on Broadway for you. Would you be interested in that?" And he said, "No." Now he was pissed that I didn't think this was a good enough script, so we shook hands and that was the end of it. Then, about a year later, we were suing each other. But even when we sued each other, it was kinda funny. I said, "How could you not pay me?" He said, "How could you sue me?" He said, "You can't have my children, those songs. You're gonna give your involvement in those songs to your grandchildren?" And I said, "Yeah, I put ten years of my life into you, and you sucked all the air out of the room. I couldn't really manage anybody else except for your friends. ~ Matt Thorne

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. ~ Steve Jobs

True friendship is not about what others can bring to you. It is not about having someone there for you when you need them. It is about what you can give to them and longing to be with them when they find themselves in need, all of which is repaid to you with the fulfillment of the promise that you will never be alone. ~ Steve Marchand

Steve. That always felt made-up to me. Like, when your kid says, "Tell me about my daddy, Mama!" and you're on the spot so you blurt out the first name that comes to mind - "Uh, his name was, um, Steve, honey. ~ Erin Watt

Causes do matter. And the world is changed by people who care deeply about causes – about things that matter. We don't have to be particularly smart or talented. We don't need a lot of money or education. All we really need is to be passionate about something important; something bigger than ourselves. And it's that commitment to a worthwhile cause that changes the world. ~ Steve Goodier

It's not like I'm looking for things that I can direct that I can also act in, but when it's right, I feel like the actor side of me wants to have that opportunity. ~ Steve Buscemi

Love is multidimensional...
Don't just say; DO.
Don't just speak; ACT.
Don't just promise; DELIVER. ~ Steve Maraboli

When fans think WWE, I don't want them to think Hulk Hogan or The Rock or Stone Cold Steve Austin or John Cena. I want them to think of The Miz. I want to be on every show. When we need a guy to do Conan or Jimmy Kimmel, I want them to call me. I wanna be on the cover of all the video games. I want it all. ~ The Miz

I Love Loving You

You are my favorite song; a rhythm of beauty that captures my spirit.

You are my favorite poem; an exquisite grouping of ideas set in motion with an unmatched enchanting elegance.

You are my best friend; from our laughter to our deep conversations, our moments together are a timeless pleasure.

You are my soul mate; a connection so pure, so powerful, that it can only be considered divine.

You are my lover; a passionate entwinement, a chorus of ecstasy, and a feeling of complete unity that words could never adequately describe.

You are my angel; you remind me of the goodness in this world and inspire me to be the greatest version of myself.

You are my home; it is in your loving gaze that I find the comfort, acceptance, and the sense of belonging.

You are my love ~ mi amor; there are not enough days in forever to allow me to fully express my love for you.

I love loving you. ~ Steve Maraboli

She was too well-trained to panic. ~ Steve Sheinkin

We're not going to be the first to this party, but we're going to be the best. ~ Steve Jobs

You kind of form a bond with your subjects, in a way. You're in it together. To a degree that people don't realize, documentary films - or at least the kind of documentary films I'm interested in - are a collaborative undertaking with the subjects. ~ Steve James

He stuffed a hand into his back pocket, found his Beretta, and shot the problem in the chest. ~ Steve Berry

You are my home; it is in your loving gaze that I find the comfort, acceptance, and the sense of belonging. ~ Steve Maraboli

True faith, real and pure faith, cannot be practiced in moderation. ~ Steve Arterburn

In his book, Holy Spirit, Revelation and Revolution: Exploring Holy Spirit Dimensions, Reinhard Bonnke says: "Prayer is not enough to rouse a dead church. It needs the power of the Word imbued with the life of the Spirit. Life comes from the living Word. What we can do and what we should do is preach the Word. Praying for God to work is fine, but praying for Him to do what we should be doing is pointless. We cannot send his Spirit anywhere. He moves with us, and He is where we are. We cannot pray for God to save souls and bless people and then wait for something to happen. He sends us with the Word and the Spirit awaits us. It is our privilege to work for him, save souls for him. For anyone who thinks they do not have strength or power, the Word is their strength and their power. There are two important things to note: Holy Spirit meetings without the Word are human meetings, and prayer is not a substitute for the Word." 1 ~ Steve Bremner

It's the reason we become enamored of certain singers, I think, because they project the voice we wish to summon within ourselves. His ~ Steve Almond

Clearly Democrats are not united in what is the critique of what we're doing there and what is the answer to what we do next. The difficulty of coming to a unified position is that for a lot of people who voted for it, they have to decide whether they can admit that they were misled. ~ Steve Elmendorf

High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you're paid nothing; you're playing to 50 people in a basement, sleeping in a van, and you love it. ~ Steve Aoki

If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much. ~ Steve Martin

I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman. ~ Ashton Kutcher

Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else. ~ Steve Goodier