John Pople Quotes

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

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• I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Stubborn

• I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Play
  • Language
  • Silent

• With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • You
  • Quality
  • Will

• I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Acting
  • Theater

• I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Enthusiasm

• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Food

• Having a son is not all pleasure.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Son
  • Pleasure
  • Having

• Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Good
  • Children
  • Abundance

• The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • World
  • Important
  • Friends

• As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Children

• Perfectionist? That's not something I am.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Perfectionist

• I want to do an album with Steven Seagal.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Want
  • Album
  • Steven

• I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Girl
  • Small
  • Myself

• I generally fall sick if I eat very heavy food.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Food
  • Fall
  • Sick

• I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before 'Saturday Night Live' did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Live
  • Movie
  • Night

• I learned what looked good on my petite frame, and to this day, I'm a great bargain shopper.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Good
  • Great
  • Day

• I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that's what's gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that's what I'm most proud of.

  

  T.I.
  • Time
  • Music
  • Happy

• My own experience but confirms the opinion that the Musalman as a rule is a bully, and the Hindu as rule is a coward.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Experience
  • Opinion
  • Coward

• How easy for those who do not bulgeTo not overindulge!

  

  Ogden Nash

• My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed.

  

  Cheryl Ladd
  • She
  • Mother

• Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen. Know all things to be like this: As the moon in a bright sky In some clear lake reflected, Though to that lake the moon has never moved. Know all things to be like this: As an echo that derives From music, sounds, and weeping, Yet in that echo is no melody. Know all things to be like this: As a magician makes illusions Of horses, oxen, carts and other things, Nothing is as it appears.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Music
  • Moon
  • Magician

• Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Sense
  • Word
  • Century

• Well, a special screening was set up for government officials, so they didn't have to see the experience of going to see the film. They certainly aren't going to the projects to see for themselves the situation.

  

  Mathieu Kassovitz
  • Up
  • Experience

• I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

  

  John Pople