Martin Rees Quotes

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

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• The chef can be very innovative, but the decision is made by the customer.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Decision
  • Customer
  • Chef

• There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Mind
  • Wife

• I lost the ball in the moon.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Lost
  • Moon
  • Ball

• As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Always
  • Story
  • Weakness

• I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Giving
  • Advice
  • Who

• When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Work
  • Why
  • Yourself

• I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Kids
  • Kid
  • Other

• Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Up
  • Family
  • Write

• I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Good
  • Together
  • Interesting

• I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Thought
  • Creative

• People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Drinking

• I feel very honoured and humbled to have people think, 'If Yuna can break through, then why can't we?' It takes a lot of work, but I tell people to just have that focus. Always be humble and a learner, practice and do research.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Experience
  • Dream
  • Bird

• I love cooking. There is nothing I like better than going home and cooking my family a nice meal. Anything with pasta! Pasta with butter! I have a good repertoire, and I can do quite a few different dishes. Sometimes they work out and sometimes not.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Work
  • Different

• It is painful to think about ruthlessness as an engine of improvement.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Improvement

• When my turn comes I propose to take my lethal capsule comfortably in bed at home and preferably on my own.

  

  P. D. James
  • Home

• A textual critic engaged upon his business is not at all like Newton investigating the motions of the planets: he is much more like a dog hunting for fleas. If a dog hunted for fleas on mathematical principles, basing his researches on statistics of area and population, he would never catch a flea except by accident.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Business
  • Dog
  • Hunting

• One of the big misconceptions is that affairs or trysts are flings about sex. And sometimes they are, but much more often they are about desire. And that is very different. The desire to feel special, to feel seen, to feel appreciated, to be laughed at or with. The desire to be desired. That does not manifest in a sexual act per se. Affairs make you feel alive. Alchemy means it's not about the actual sex, but the sexuality, the energy, the aura. It's the imagination and anticipation of it as much or instead of the actual experience of it.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Different
  • Energy
  • Desire

• I like getting older. I always looked younger than I was, and I found that people wouldn't give me the room to speak. The older I get, it's like, 'Oh, I'm still talking, and they're still listening.'

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • People
  • Listening

• I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It's very mystical.

  

  Jean Dujardin
  • Home
  • Church

• I am well aware that I am the umblest person going... My mother is likewise a very umble person. We live in a numble abode, Master Copperfield, but have much to be thankful for.

  

  David Copperfield
  • Live
  • Mother
  • Thankful

• The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

  

  Martin Rees