Polykarp Kusch Quotes

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

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• I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.

  

  Ted Bell
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Day

• Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Time
  • Different
  • Experience

• Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • People
  • You
  • Travel

• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Man
  • Team
  • Ingredient

• An actor has to embody a role.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Actor
  • Role
  • Embody

• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Together
  • Church
  • Myself

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Long
  • Summer
  • Winter

• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
  • Family
  • School
  • Remember

• I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Gold
  • Collecting

• I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Good
  • Best
  • New York

• We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Morning
  • Never
  • Before

• Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Evil

• Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Important
  • Family
  • Energy

• Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Never
  • New

• I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Live
  • High
  • Freedom

• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Power
  • Attention
  • Influence

• Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Music
  • Words

• Oddly enough, I'm not a particularly judgmental person. I just don't have a lot of filtering when I'm in 'tiger mother' mode. I say what comes into my head.

  

  Amy Chua
  • Mother
  • Tiger

• I spend most of my time at the ranch with my family, and enjoy life - watch the sun come up, watch it go down, thank God for another day, and just be happy.

  

  Marcus Luttrell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

  

  Anita Roddick
  • People
  • Kindness

• I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

  

  Bill Parcells
  • People
  • Up

• Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

  

  Polykarp Kusch
  • Time
  • Science