Brian Greene Quotes

Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.

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• Actors are always the last to see what they have created.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Always
  • See
  • Last

• Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Fighting

• They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Saying
  • Computers
  • Nonsense

• I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Space
  • Guitar

• I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Giving
  • Hate

• I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Pay
  • Beatles
  • Tribute

• If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People
  • Woman
  • Dinner

• To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Home
  • Hurt
  • Daughter

• I exercise five days a week at home.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Home
  • Exercise
  • Week

• Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Guy

• I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Like
  • Child
  • Embarrassing

• I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Song
  • Write

• The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Man
  • Listening
  • Period

• In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Faith
  • Advice
  • Sound

• The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

  

  Samuel Hahnemann
  • People
  • Sick
  • Healthy

• I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Growing
  • Comedy
  • Obsessed

• Can't is the word that is foe to ambition,An enemy ambushed to shatter your will;Its prey is forever the man with a missionAnd bows but to courage and patience and skill.Hate it, with hatred that's deep and undying,For once it is welcomed 'twill break any man;Whatever the goal you are seeking, keep tryingAnd answer this demon by saying: 'I can.'

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Hate
  • Forever
  • Deep

• A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Dream

• Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art.

  

  Brian Cox
  • People
  • Art
  • Guy

• Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!

  

  Michael Rooker
  • Black
  • Belt

• I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I am not an individualist in the Western sense. Collectivism can become oppressive when it tries to dictate; the rights of the two should not clash.

  

  Asghar Ali Engineer
  • Clash
  • Collectivism
  • Individualist

• Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.

  

  Brian Greene