John Cornforth Quotes
The essential principles of the three-dimensional structure of organic molecules had been correctly formulated by the first Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Jacobus van't Hoff, as early as 1874.
Quotes to Explore
-
People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
-
A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
-
When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.
-
Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.
-
Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.
-
As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.
-
I love the 1,500 meters. I knew that, if I had to do it to win, I'd run under 4:05. That means I could pick up 100 points, maybe even 150 points, on anybody in the world.
-
Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.
-
We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
-
I had a dream to become a mounted policewoman.
-
The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
-
When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.
-
All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.
-
Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.
-
Moonlight on canvas, midnight and wine,Two shadows starting to softly combine.The picture they're paintingIs one of the heart;And to those who have seen it,It's a true work of art.Oh, the red strokes,Passions uncaged;Thundering moments of tenderness rage.Oh, the red strokes,Tempered and strong (Fearlessly drawn),Burning the night like the dawn.
-
As a general matter, I believe we should be very slow to make conclusions about the nature of the cosmos based upon inner experience – no matter how profound these experiences seem.
-
My library is filled with UN condemnations.
-
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?
-
It is an established maxim that birth is a criterion of allegiance. Birth however derives its force sometimes from place and sometimes from parentage, but in general place is the most certain criterion; it is what applies in the United States; it will therefore be unnecessary to investigate any other.
-
I have always believed in helping people whose work I admire.
-
White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one believes black people. No one. Until a white person vouches for them.
-
I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.
-
A country isn't sovereign if we can't control who comes in and who's allowed to come in.
-
The essential principles of the three-dimensional structure of organic molecules had been correctly formulated by the first Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Jacobus van't Hoff, as early as 1874.
