Abraham Pais Quotes
Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.Abraham Pais
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps -
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter -
Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
Baha'u'llah -
If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
Nate Berkus -
He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
Orison Swett Marden
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
Karan Mahajan -
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
Maggie Stiefvater -
Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.
Sam Yagan -
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
Barry Commoner -
The difference between brown and white rice is that the former is not milled. With the outer bran and germ intact, the rice is therefore chewier and nuttier.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
Vidal Sassoon -
I like pushing boundaries.
Lady Gaga -
The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
Ralph Nader -
I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
Carly Fiorina -
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
Sam Walter Foss
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The funny thing is, when I ask people with dark skin if they would change their color, they tell me no, and when I ask women if they would rather be men, they tell me no, and I get the same response when I ask people with unusual anatomies if they would take a magic pill to erase their unusual features.
Alice Dreger -
I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
Imelda Staunton -
I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.
Emile Hirsch -
There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
Iggy Azalea -
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.
Abraham Pais