101 Quotes by Graham Moore

Arthur had never challenged a man to a duel, but in this moment he understood the magnificent reasonableness of the tradition. It was either that or slugging him outright this very second, which didn’t seem nearly so gentlemanly.

What an imprecise science was medicine. It was more an art than was fiction.

One doesn’t lie down with a lion and get to act surprised if one finds oneself devoured.

It takes a shock to the system, doesn’t it, to make a man realize what good things he has.

Bankers all wanted to be princes. Professors all wanted to be Martin Luther.

Light bulbs. Electricity. It seems likely that ours will be the last generation to ever gaze, wide-eyed, at something truly novel. That our kind will be the last to ever stare in disbelief at a man-made thing that could not possibly exist. We made wonders, boys. I only wonder how many of them are left to make.

Westinghouse was responsible for tremendous feats of manufacturing – extremely well-built devices made by a factory of hundreds, each one supplying a part. A chain of construction. Edison, on the other hand, had built himself a factory that did not produce machines, but rather ideas.

Art is a social object, books and films and records and television shows, they’re social objects that bring people together in conversation. I love the notion that I could write something that two people could share. That’s the goal.

Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: There will always be some who misunderstand you. –.