George Gamow Quotes

I decided to get Ph.D. in experimental physics because experimental physicists have their own room in the Institute where they can hang their coat, whereas theoretical physicists have to hang their coat at the entrance.

George Gamow

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• I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Think
  • Enthusiasm

• I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Great
  • Want
  • Just

• I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Guess
  • Willingness
  • Audacity

• What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Game
  • Team

• One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Kids
  • Know

• I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

  

  Pam Gems
  • War
  • Philosophy
  • Personage

• When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Day

• People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Life
  • Destroyed
  • Items

• I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Friend

• In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Ways
  • Asset
  • Fitting In

• Under the Affordable Care Act everybody will have lower rates, better quality care, and better access.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Quality

• 1) Writers who write for other writers should write letters.

  

  Larry Niven

• Even though they, themselves, were material beings, they could show themselves to us only by taking on bodies that our senses were able to perceive.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac

• But that's what I'm saying to you... That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad. Sometimes you have to stand up to them.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing was not generated from within me. Even if I walk with light, I am not the light; and if I am a taut-stringed lute, I am not the lute player.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Song

• Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Nature
  • Law

• I'm sure there's a hell of a party in Ireland now and I know I don't have anything to do for two-and-a-half days so I'm going to party on

  

  Padraig Harrington
  • Party
  • Two
  • Half

• Any new French female acquaintance would most likely have held herself aloof, eyeing you suspiciously until she had assessed your character and whether or not you posed a threat.

  

  Catherine Sanderson
  • You
  • Female
  • French

• For a long time I wasn't happy, but that had nothing to do with Beyonce. That had to do with me trying to get my life in order and make better decisions for myself. I'm seeing all these wonderful things happen for her, and I am happy for her. But I want a path. I want things to pop off for me, too.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• “Miss Fairfield,” he said quietly, “I am not your enemy. Stop treating me as one.” Her heart slammed in her breast. “I have no enemies.” “That, Miss Fairfield, is bollocks, and you know it. You have only enemies.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • You
  • Enemy
  • Have

• To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough of the eagle in my character to make a direct flight to the loftiest altitudes in the social world; and I certainly never endeavored to reach those heights by using the creeping powers of the reptile, who in ascending, generally chooses the dirtiest path, because it is the easiest.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Character
  • Science
  • Flight

• I decided to get Ph.D. in experimental physics because experimental physicists have their own room in the Institute where they can hang their coat, whereas theoretical physicists have to hang their coat at the entrance.

  

  George Gamow