George Gamow Quotes

If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer.

George Gamow

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• I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Good
  • Try

• I turned down a lot of films.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Down
  • Films
  • Lot

• I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Different
  • Character
  • Myself

• There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Work
  • Book
  • Fear

• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Truth
  • Enough
  • Belief

• All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Actor
  • Working
  • Wanted

• Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Food
  • Stop

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Good
  • Political
  • Boy

• This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Words

• As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • People
  • Time
  • Nice

• Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

  

  Barbara Block
  • People
  • Want
  • Sharks

• New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Live
  • Like

• Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Different
  • New
  • Year

• Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Morning

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• A house is kind of scary.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • House
  • Kind
  • Scary

• Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Think
  • Language
  • Magic

• It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.

  

  Louise Leakey
  • People
  • Important
  • Remember

• I want a campfire box.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Want
  • Box
  • Campfire

• I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Space

• Pursuing music eats into your life to the point where there is no space left for anything else. You are lucky if you find a partner who is able to understand that, but even then, they will only understand it for a while, and then things get - you know, difficult.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Life
  • Music
  • Space

• A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Never
  • Roots
  • Filmmaker

• If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer.

  

  George Gamow
  • Running
  • Space
  • Universe