Brian Greene Quotes

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

Brian Greene

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• They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Song

• It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Care
  • Ability
  • Protect

• The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Great
  • Together
  • Parents

• The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Together

• Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Islamic
  • Nations
  • Philippines

• Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • You
  • Find
  • Shopping

• Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Tree

• Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

  

  Orson Welles
  • Genius
  • Denies

• For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Music
  • Want
  • Listening

• My life is not perfect.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • My Life

• Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Black
  • Rock
  • Tree

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'

  

  Imelda May
  • Time
  • Long
  • Why

• The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Rights
  • Second

• Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • People
  • Time
  • Goal

• If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Competition

• I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Things
  • Emotion
  • Inside

• Why is it that the Rev. Jesse Jackson can quote the Bible in support of his pet causes, but conservative ministers and lay people must argue purely on secular grounds for their social and political agenda?... It seems that mixing religion and politics is acceptable as long as the road turns to the left.

  

  Gary DeMar
  • People
  • Support
  • Christian

• I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Think
  • You
  • Go

• What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • World
  • More
  • Humility

• If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Holiday

• L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • America
  • Perfect

• Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Science