Peter Medawar Quotes

The bells which toll for mankind are-most of them, anyway-like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it must be our fault if they do not make a cheerful and harmonious sound.

Peter Medawar

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• I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Death
  • Too Much

• I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Love
  • She
  • Night

• If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Good
  • Important
  • Friend

• I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • Rock

• I played point guard my whole life.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Life
  • Point
  • Guard

• Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Like
  • Silence
  • Word

• You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Know
  • Me
  • See

• Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Company
  • Values
  • Only

• I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • People
  • Mind
  • Wind

• Love's whole world on us doth wheel.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • World

• I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.

  

  Jamelia
  • Water

• I've had a bris, was Bar Mitzvahed and, on occasion, have referred to a temple as a shul. I've never denied it, nor have I disguised it. I am, indeed, a Jew.

  

  Alan Zweibel

• A fire in a forest is alive with terror and power.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Power
  • Fire
  • Forest

• Sure, I can sing a country song, but so can a lot of people.

  

  Harold Lloyd Jenkins
  • People
  • Country
  • Song

• In my personal life, I'm hilarious! I was always a bit of a jokester.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Life
  • Hilarious

• When I first heard 'A Christmas Story, the musical,' I thought, Oh, that could be really good. It just felt like it fit. Some films lend themselves well to other formats, some don't, but there are so many fantasy sequences in the film, and Ralphie's such a dreamer as a character, I thought they could really lend themselves to being set pieces.

  

  Peter Billingsley
  • Good
  • Character
  • Christmas

• Since I was a kid, I always felt like God had placed something inside my heart. And I always believed that God was going to do something great in my life. But I didn't know the road that I was going to take to get here. And especially losing my wife.

  

  Danny Gokey
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps.

  

  Alexander Grothendieck
  • Mathematics
  • Introduction
  • Childish

• I have reason to be grateful to Dr. Cook for favors received; I lived with his folks while I was suffering with my eyes, due to snow blindness, but I feel that all of the debts of gratitude have been liquidated by my silence in this controversy, and I will have nothing more to say in regard to him or to his claims.

  

  Matthew Henson
  • Eyes
  • Suffering
  • Snow blindness

• I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.

  

  Pink
  • Control

• Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Soul
  • Education

• I’m one of those people who struggles to relax, even though I know it’s important for my mental health.

  

  Nicole Burnham
  • Health
  • Relax
  • Mental

• The bells which toll for mankind are-most of them, anyway-like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it must be our fault if they do not make a cheerful and harmonious sound.

  

  Peter Medawar