John D. Barrow Quotes

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

John D. Barrow

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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

• 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

• 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 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

• I would remake 'Club Paradise.' I thought the story was cool, the setting was great. Everything lined up, except I wrote it for Bill Murray and John Cleese.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Up
  • Great
  • Cool

• I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn't our time.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Time
  • God
  • Death

• I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Sister

• I haven't got many tattoos, but the two that are most important to me are music tattoos. I have a black heart with a lightning bolt down the middle. And the black heart was for Manson and the lightning bolt down the middle was for David Bowie. I have black diamond with circles that keep swirling and swirling, and it's surrounded by sort of crazy diamonds because Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" really inspired me, and everybody's called me Crazy Diamond since I was a teenager, so it was always important to me.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Music
  • Teenager
  • Diamond

• Because the sin which she encouraged him to commit was in all likelihood a sin of sensuality, woman is more intensely exposed to the danger of descent into stark carnality. And when this happens, she always becomes once again the evil seductress, whereas, paradoxically, God has specifically enjoined her to combat evil.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • She
  • Evil

• I like eggs. My favorite way of cooking eggs is old school French.

  

  David Chang
  • School
  • Cooking

• Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the toothache; but a man that were to sleep your sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he would change places with his officer; for look you, sir, you know not which way you shall go.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Sleep

• I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.

  

  Shirley Henderson
  • Character
  • Looks
  • Sound

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

  

  John D. Barrow