Sam Kean Quotes
If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.
Sam Kean
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Pablo Neruda
It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum's always said that's why I'm so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
Tamsin Egerton
Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
Oliver Sacks
I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
Nas
The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
Irvine Welsh
Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.
Quvenzhane Wallis
Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
Ted Olson
I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.
Kate McKinnon
The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.
Hamid Karzai
If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.
Sam Kean