Sam Kean Quotes

When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name.

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• I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Girl
  • Bike
  • Fighter

• On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Character
  • Stage

• If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Compete

• I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Believe
  • Career
  • Control

• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Good
  • School
  • Help

• Love is more than one thing.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Love
  • More
  • Love Is

• The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Hands
  • Institution
  • Euro

• What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Work
  • Know
  • Rest

• Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Beach
  • Director
  • Eternity

• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Thought

• It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Time
  • Money
  • Better

• If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.

  

  Dan Malloy
  • People
  • Different
  • Party

• While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • World
  • Great
  • Interesting

• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • For Her

• I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Great
  • Fiction
  • Favourite

• I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

  

  Sally Field
  • Beautiful
  • Never
  • Been

• I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Music
  • Why
  • Song

• I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Political
  • Circumstances

• Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Men
  • Fashion
  • Flying

• I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Idea
  • Simply
  • No Idea

• All the kids are gone. It's the greatest thing that has ever happened to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hanks. I'll tell you that right now. Second greatest after having the kids in the first place. When they go, holy smoke, it's like you're dating again. It's fantastic. Also, we were doing an awful lot of work.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Kids
  • Gone

• We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable.

  

  Nelly Mazloum
  • Spiritual
  • Body
  • Feels

• When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name.

  

  Sam Kean
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  • Gold
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