James Gleick Quotes

I really don't think of myself as a science writer.

James Gleick

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• I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • People
  • Attention
  • Hurt

• I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mom

• A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Good
  • Me
  • Feel

• It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Done
  • Social
  • Coincidence

• I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Country
  • Parents

• The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Accept

• Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Reality
  • Political
  • Color

• Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Future

• I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.

  

  Randy Travis
  • School
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Parents
  • Generation
  • Talk

• I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Up
  • Always
  • Clothes

• There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Different
  • American
  • Internet

• I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Really
  • Hurts
  • Says

• I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Up
  • God
  • Man

• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parenting

• I tell everyone that I'm 5 feet-1 inch tall, but I think I'm technically 5 feet. My mom says she's 4 feet 11 inches, and I'm barely taller than her.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • She
  • Mom

• Even though people do not traditionally think of being empathetic as a business skill, it can create enormous value.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • People
  • Business
  • Value

• As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Wish
  • Thought
  • Creation

• If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

  

  Johnny Ball

• I really don't think of myself as a science writer.

  

  James Gleick
  • Science