Florence Nightingale Quotes
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.Florence Nightingale
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
Beatrix of the Netherlands -
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
Vin Scully -
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
Barry Marshall -
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
Edsger Dijkstra -
If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
Larry King
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
Jack Lemmon -
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
E. M. Forster -
When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
Orhan Pamuk -
I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
Adam Jones -
'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
Ramez Naam -
I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must be a very nice person'.
Natalie Cole
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
Ian Somerhalder -
There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
Nathan Fillion -
I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
Ian Mckellen -
With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
Salma Hayek
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I don't think I make genre films. I think studios try to sell films as genres because they know how to do that. There's nothing wrong with that. I don't know what I make. It's sort of a pot roast, all my films.
Darren Aronofsky -
I want to make the greatest record ever made. It's the only thing I can think about.
Ezra Furman -
I don't really like the slogan 'It boy.'
Emile Hirsch -
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Florence Nightingale