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

• The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Unknown

• Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.

  

  David Cronenberg
  • History
  • Movie
  • Culture

• I really like Caravan Palace's electro swing stuff. They incorporate the electronic, but when you see them live, they're all on stage playing live music. They're all playing their instruments. They drop these beats with the DJs that are so incredible.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Music
  • Live

• I love my mother Ali so much. I'm a momma's boy. I just have a very cool mom. It's not as though I had any say in the matter. I'm just really fortunate. She's the most kind, loving, giving woman.

  

  Hayden Christensen
  • Mother
  • Fortunate
  • Ali

• The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.

  

  William of Occam
  • Assumption
  • Explanation

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

  

  Brian Greene