Paul Davies Quotes

In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?

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• If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Dark
  • Listen
  • Cry

• I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mind

• The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Money
  • Walking
  • More

• All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'

  

  Dan Stevens
  • School
  • Age
  • Learn

• I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Literature
  • See
  • Fiction

• I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • School
  • Want
  • Gang

• We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Through

• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • Country
  • Family

• 2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Great
  • Me
  • Roles

• I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Love
  • Theatre
  • Bills

• My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Experience
  • Father
  • Game

• For me, dance is about the aesthetics and the hard work that goes into creating something so beautiful. Motivation and dedication to the craft is what pushes me to do my best, to always strive to do better, and the outcome is always worth it.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Dance

• Women hold up half the sky.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Up
  • Women
  • Sky

• Sometimes, of course, there's no quick way to make it through immigration: Different airports have gluts of incoming flights at different times of day, and short of rearranging your flight schedule to ensure you'll land at a low-traffic hour, there's nothing you can do.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Different
  • Day
  • Immigration

• When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Work
  • Space
  • Looking

• To farm is to be placed absolutely.

  

  Wendell Berry

• I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Life
  • Work

• I've always loved the underdog characters.

  

  Jim O'Heir

• We tell stories to live, to love, to prosper and to fail.

  

  Bill Willingham
  • Stories
  • Fail
  • Prosper

• I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

  

  Steven Moffat
  • Forever
  • Stories
  • Finite

• I have two grandchildren: Maggie is 11; Robert is 9. I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they're my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Time
  • Country
  • American

• I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

  

  Phil Mickelson
  • Up
  • Book
  • Fall

• Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • People
  • Asks
  • Colonels

• In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?

  

  Paul Davies
  • Stories
  • Cancer
  • Cures