James D. Watson Quotes
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
Quotes to Explore
-
Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
-
Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
-
I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
-
Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.
-
What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
-
It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
-
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
-
I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
-
My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
-
The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
-
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
-
There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
-
I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
-
The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later.
-
Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
-
By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.
-
I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
-
I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
-
If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.
-
Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world.
-
If this [national Democratic Party] is a national party, sushi is our national dish. Today, our national Democratic leaders look south and say, "I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell."
-
I think that, generally, a woman brings in luck for her husband after marriage, but in my case, my husband is lucky for me.
-
I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.
-
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
