Jeanette Winterson Quotes

What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

Jeanette Winterson

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• I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Fun
  • More
  • Conclusion

• The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Way
  • Listen
  • Radio

• The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Important
  • Long
  • Competition

• The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • War
  • Law
  • Military

• Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • You
  • Knowledge
  • Cherish

• That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Time
  • Brain
  • Will

• When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Answer

• All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Religion
  • Belief
  • Realize

• The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Music
  • Thing
  • Exists

• Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Understanding
  • Opinion
  • Chemistry

• Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Believe
  • Attitude

• An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Past
  • Personality
  • Identity

• What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Children
  • Why
  • Kids

• The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • America
  • History
  • Starting

• When I create a TV show, it's so that I can write it. I'm not an empire builder; my writing staff is usually a combination of two kinds of people - experts in the world the show is set in, and young writers who will not be unhappy if they're not writing scripts.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Three
  • Seriously
  • Operations

• You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Know
  • Him

• It took me a long time to accept that I was a writer.

  

  Katie Kitamura
  • Time
  • Long

• We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
  • Country
  • Heaven
  • Chinese

• It matters, your game plan. But in the end, there are a lot of ways to play defense, and there are a lot of ways to run or throw the football. If you don't block anybody, I don't care what your grand scheme is, if that nose guard is in your backfield three yards, it doesn't matter.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Game
  • Football
  • Plan

• I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Years
  • Jazz

• As a mother, you're only allowed to talk about the 'good' moments - not the ones when you've had enough and want to be on your own. Or just want to be a woman, not a mother.

  

  Leila Slimani
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Moments

• What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

  

  Jeanette Winterson