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

• 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

• 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

• Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Knowledge
  • Moral

• If you are describing any occurrence... make two or more distinct reports at different times... We discriminate at first only a few features, and we need to reconsider our experience from many points of view and in various moods in order to perceive the whole.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Different
  • Experience

• It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.

  

  Matthew Macfadyen
  • Hate

• Of Pearse and Connolly I admire the latter the most. Connolly was a realist, Pearse the direct opposite. I would have followed Connolly to hell had such action been necessary. But I honestly doubt I would have followed Pearse…

  

  Michael Collins
  • Follow
  • Admire
  • Realist

• I think the mainstream gaming industry has a very narrow focus on the young male audience. There are plenty of other people out there who enjoy playing games, but if you walk into most game stores, there's nothing on the shelf for them. I mean, imagine if you could only buy cheeseburgers and nothing but cheeseburgers in every restaurant?

  

  Jane Jensen
  • People
  • Game
  • Focus

• I was raised in the Methodist Church, which is a very Germanic, military kind of music they have there. I heard this other music on the radio: Pentecostal. That was right up my street.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Up
  • Music
  • Church

• Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Wants
  • Precious
  • iss

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

  

  Martin Rees