Bill Nye Quotes

I guess people might just get tired of my face.

I'm grateful for people who have believed in me when others might not have.

Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear. Although the moment that it happens might be terribly sad and moving, five minutes later, if you're asked to remember that person, you go, "Oh right, yeah, yeah!" 'Cause you're just moving forward.

It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.

Listen: People are always saying, 'Rickey says Rickey.' But it's been blown way out of proportion. People might catch me, when they know I'm ticked off, saying, 'Rickey, what the heck are you doing, Rickey?' They say, 'Darn, Rickey, what are you saying Rickey for? Why don't you just say, 'I?' But I never did. I always said, 'Rickey,' and it become something for people to joke about.

I remember having a discussion with [Kaz] about his translation of the word shunyata as "boundlessness," instead of the more traditional "emptiness." I said: "Kaz, everyone is used to the word emptiness for shunyata. This might not sit well with people. He said: "Translator's prerogative!" Then he added, "One cannot assume we know what they meant...." I agreed.

It wasn't that we were afraid of the Church or the Vatican. The record company thought people might find the title offensive. They asked me if I would change ["A Deal with God"].

I think a lot of people are afraid of being happy because of what others might think of it.

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.

I was confident and in good shape when I first came to L.A. but nobody would cast me in any well written roles. People assumed based on my looks I was an asshole and a one trick pony. They never let me improv or do comedy. It wasn't until I built a shlubby exterior, which stood in stark contrast to my inner confidence that people gave me room to play.

Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for.

Help shape the stories that people are telling about you.

Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.

I thought, "If I can make you feel what it's like for that first super-passionate love, other people might like that too," and, of course, they did.

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.

In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.

We are as happy as people can be, without making themselves ridiculous, and might be even happier; but, as a matter of taste, we choose to stop short at this point.

Someday social media might, hopefully in some small measure, wake up to the fact that other people's failures are not your successes.

I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don't think there's time to waste.

The heft of a life in the hands grows both lighter and weightier. Over time, my life has become more saturated with its shape and made-ness, while my poems have become more and more free. The first word of every poem might be "Yes." The next words: "And then."

The best I can hope for is that I might provoke a water cooler argument between you and somebody else. But it is not journalism. It doesn't have the rigor of journalism. It doesn't have the proof positive that facts provide. So it can be readily dismissed as mere propaganda. But I can certainly reach more people.