John D. Barrow Quotes

Ultimate explanation no longer means only a story that encompasses everything.

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• Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Stop

• I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Want

• I have been the victim of heartless malice.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Been
  • Victim
  • Heartless

• Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Want
  • Attitude
  • Intelligence

• My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Tea

• It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Long
  • Language

• Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

  

  Rachel Blanchard
  • American
  • Mother
  • British

• I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Mom
  • Down

• To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Success
  • Trouble
  • Adventure

• I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Time
  • Family
  • Friends

• I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Great
  • Fear

• Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Women
  • American
  • Chinese

• I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Career
  • Wish
  • Look

• I have had to learn about saying no.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Learn
  • Saying
  • About

• My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Time
  • Love
  • Dad

• I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Work
  • Love
  • Start

• Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

  

  Barry White
  • Day
  • Opinion
  • Turned

• I started in high school and regional theater. Anything that came into town, I wanted to be involved in, because I just wanted to learn.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • School
  • High
  • Learn

• In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Truth
  • Justice

• I was born in London, England during the great fog of 1952, but survived the coal-fueled air pollution with no ill effects and after less than a year in England was carried to Canada by my parents.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Air

• I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I was learning that, even for a woman with power, the path was dotted with land mines—she's so ambitious. she's so aggressive. she's ruthless. 'Funny thing,' I used to say, 'a man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.'

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • She
  • Power
  • Funny

• If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Fear
  • Eyes
  • Chance

• Ultimate explanation no longer means only a story that encompasses everything.

  

  John D. Barrow