Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Quotes

'Soft Matter' Nobel lecture (9 December 1991)

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

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• The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Tongue
  • Heat

• I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Think
  • Game
  • Same

• The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Real
  • Business

• With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Everything
  • Possible
  • Begins

• Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Government
  • Step

• I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Guy
  • Likes
  • Roses

• I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works.

  

  Pat Garrett
  • Up
  • Done
  • You

• Ah, poder ser tu, sendo eu!Ter a tua alegre inconsciência,E a consciência disso!

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Truth

• Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate:And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Hate
  • Smile

• Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

  

  Leo Rosten
  • Communication

• People are not here to meet your expectations.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • People
  • Expectations
  • Here

• The house is always full, and we're always cooking - outside, inside, for six, eight, a dozen, 20 people.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • People
  • House
  • Cooking

• There are tons of really good writers out there, but for one reason or another, they just have not had the support that allowed them to build audiences.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Good
  • Support

• For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Great
  • May

• They're really competitive at drama in Texas.

  

  Lynn Collins
  • Drama
  • Texas

• For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Up
  • War
  • Cold

• That December 1992, we Barça lost the Intercontinental Cup match against São Paulo 2–1. It was one of the few times that I had no problems with a defeat. I've always admired the Brazilian coach Telê Santana for his vision, because it always displayed a genuine love of football.

  

  Johan Cruyff
  • Lost
  • Football
  • Vision

• Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly? The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring ,Its summer blossoms scent the air; Yet wait till winter comes again, And who will call the wild-briar fair? Then, scorn the silly rose-wreath now, And deck thee with holly's sheen, That, when December blights thy brow, He still may leave thy garland green.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Friendship
  • Love Is
  • December

• He had seen trances before - wise men far in the east, who could feign death; a herbwife as she bent over her patient, searching for invisible hurts. But this was different. He could sense something here, within the circle cast by the light of the fire. A presence. Presences...

  

  Charles de Lint
  • Men
  • Different
  • She

• A lot of my friends were retiring from the newspaper business, and the newspaper pensions are not enormous.

  

  John Sandford
  • Business
  • Friends

• 'Soft Matter' Nobel lecture (9 December 1991)

  

  Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
  • December