Sam Kean Quotes

Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.

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• During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Proud
  • Reputation
  • Stingy

• I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Want
  • Theatre
  • Cold

• He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • War
  • End

• My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Bored
  • motivation
  • Just

• Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

  

  Flavius Josephus
  • Great
  • Father
  • City

• It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • God
  • Why
  • Kids

• In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Way
  • Become
  • Reputation

• I can be more cold than people would like me to be.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Me
  • Cold

• I had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Problem
  • Cold
  • Sound

• A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Years
  • Reputation
  • They Say

• The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Real
  • Power
  • Cold

• I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Service
  • Born
  • Room

• My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Man

• My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Good
  • Great
  • Why

• You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Fear
  • Know
  • Cold

• My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Play
  • First
  • Room

• The predominant colour of the kitchen - its walls, cupboards, floor, shelves - with all the ancillary rooms - pantries, larders, cold stores, and sculleries, is green - Hooker's dark green, leaf-green, emerald, faded turquoise, and eau-de-nile - like the colours of a dark wet jungle.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Dark
  • Cold
  • Green

• When she slept, she looked peaceful, beautiful. Not Lena's kind of beautiful, something different. She looked content - like a sunny day, a cold glass of milk, an unopened book before you cracked the binding.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Different
  • She
  • Book

• Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18gibberish. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called 'Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You'.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Book
  • Interesting
  • Famous

• Now, the smoke fills the airIn this honky-tonk bar.And I'm thinking 'bout where I'd rather be.But I burned all my bridges;I sank all my ships.And I'm stranded at the edge of the sea.

  

  James Taylor
  • Thinking
  • Sea

• I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Good
  • Root
  • Pigs

• Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Cold
  • Reputation
  • Room