Mayim Bialik Quotes

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• I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • American
  • Think
  • Support

• The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Baseball
  • Tragedy
  • Big

• It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Women
  • Always

• That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Brain
  • Fiction
  • Shape

• By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Faith
  • Achievement

• Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • You
  • Stand
  • Soft

• The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Energy
  • Light
  • Ship

• Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long
  • Power
  • Often

• Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hand

• You cannot win if you cannot run.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Sports
  • Win
  • Run

• I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Live
  • Needs
  • Ferrari

• Circumstance and settings are of no importance. One day this sense of emptiness and remorse submerges you. Then , like a tide, it ebbs and disappears. But in the end it returns in force, and she couldn’t shake it off. Nor could I?

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Importance
  • Emptiness
  • Circumstance

• Things have no hold on the soul. They have no access to it, cannot move or direct it. It is moved and directed by itself alone. It takes the things before it and interprets them as it sees fit. (Hays translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Soul
  • Alone

• This first stage of the life of the whole race is savagery, raw nature:… a condition in which man enjoys the most exquisite goods, equality and freedom, in full abundance, and would also enjoy them forever, if he would follow the hint of nature and understand the art of not abusing his powers and preventing the outbreak of his excessive passions.

  

  Adam Weishaupt
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

  

  Ralph Ellison

• I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

  

  Martha Reeves
  • Life
  • Music

• No one wants to say, 'That's not funny,' when you're working.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Funny

• Depending on what you allow, you can still get the blues, man. I'm still trying to figure out where the blues really lies, where the street is.

  

  Christian Scott
  • Trying
  • Lies

• I think I'm better all around as a skater. Physically, I think I'm definitely stronger. I'm lighter, I'm leaner, I know a lot more about my body.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Body
  • Stronger
  • Skater

• Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Faith
  • Church
  • Practice

• If researchers seek only the kinds of order with which Westerners are today familiar, they will miss, or reject as disorder, all other orders.

  

  David Lewis-Williams
  • Order
  • Familiar
  • Researchers

• Shane padded back to the couch and flopped, sucking on his own can of soda. Eve shot him an exasperated look. “Yeah, man, thanks for bringing me one, too.” The raccoon eye make-up exaggerated her eye roll. “Dork.” “Didn’t know if you wanted zombie dirt sprinkled on it or anything. If you’re eating this week.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Eye
  • Thanks

• Garbage has become one of the most accurate measures of prosperity in twenty-first century America and the world.

  

  Edward Humes
  • Prosperity
  • Measures
  • Garbage

• I'm super grateful to be an employed actor.

  

  Mayim Bialik