Brian Greene Quotes

Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of reality come from?' 'Did time have a beginning?'

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• Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Faith
  • Far
  • Candidates

• I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Never
  • Everybody Else

• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Violence
  • Daughter
  • Situation

• I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Infantry

• I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Thought
  • Writer
  • Tough

• Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Waiting

• I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Moment
  • Producer
  • Some

• I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Long
  • Book
  • Quality

• As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Start

• Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Like

• Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Good
  • Knowledge

• I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Today
  • Dad
  • Day

• On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Travel

• Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Life
  • Society
  • Punishment

• I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Lose
  • Losing
  • Chess

• I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Healthy
  • Diet
  • Favourite

• I don't want to live on past records.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Live
  • Want
  • Past

• I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • People
  • School
  • College

• My goal for children's books is to have them become tableside or bedside classics. To me, it would be awesome to write a book that every kid would end up reading at some point in their life because influencing kids in a positive way at such a young age is really cool.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• I met Jack Nicholson when I was about 10 at a party of my uncle's, and it wasn't so much that I knew his films because I was small, but he wore sunglasses inside at night and I thought that must mean he was very important and was suitably star struck by his charismatic presence.

  

  Emilia Fox
  • Important
  • Night
  • Small

• American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean.

  

  David Ignatius
  • American

• I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.

  

  Leonard Boswell
  • People
  • Home
  • American

• Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of reality come from?' 'Did time have a beginning?'

  

  Brian Greene
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