Brian Greene Quotes

What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.

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• I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Right
  • Said
  • Yes

• I'm not a control freak.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Control
  • Control Freak

• The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • Know
  • News

• Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Love
  • House
  • Always

• I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Kind

• If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Marriage
  • Trouble
  • Others

• I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Love
  • Think
  • Clothes

• I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they're interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Justice
  • Internet

• When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Commitment

• 'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Street
  • Halloween
  • Nightmare

• In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • More
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Reading
  • English
  • Training

• They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Me
  • Like
  • Going

• I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • Feel
  • Class
  • Last

• Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Why
  • Man
  • Him

• I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Character
  • Happy
  • Girl

• I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Feel

• I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Help
  • Problems

• I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Love
  • Want
  • Find

• What kind of expression is this - "punishing Israel"? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are we youths of fourteen who, if they don't behave properly, are slapped across the fingers? Let me tell you who this government is composed of. It is composed of people whose lives were spent in resistance, in fighting and in suffering. You will not frighten us with "punishments." He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are only prepared to listen to rational arguments. You have no right to "punish" Israel - and I protest at the very use of this term.

  

  Menachem Begin
  • Government
  • Argument
  • Israel

• They’d say, ‘If you play the record backwards, you can hear evil things like 'grrrr!'’ and I would think, ‘Geez, I didn’t know the devil sounded like that. I thought he was coherent like the rest of us.’

  

  Brian Francis Johnson AC/DC
  • Thinking
  • Play
  • Evil

• More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Book
  • Knowledge
  • Libraries

• What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.

  

  Brian Greene