Johnny Ball Quotes
The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.
Quotes to Explore
-
You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
-
I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
-
It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
-
I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
-
Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
-
When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
-
I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
-
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
-
'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
-
I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
-
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
-
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
-
Dance should mean something to you.
-
You have to take over your town in order to take over your city.
-
It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
-
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
-
'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
-
So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
-
I think every time I step on the court, I'm just preparing myself to be the best player I can be, be the best teammate I can be as well.
-
The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
-
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
-
I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.
-
I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh.
-
The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.
