Paul Davies Quotes
If we knew we were not alone in the universe it would have a very, very deep impact on our worldview, on our understanding of our place in the universe.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
-
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
-
Cash flow is a problem for a small and developing company, and the lack of it is the reason why many small businesses fail. Ensure that you have enough money in your bank account to make you able to carry out daily basic needs for your business.
-
I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
-
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
-
Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
-
Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.
-
I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
-
When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
-
I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
-
Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
-
We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
-
I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
-
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
-
I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
-
In this decayed hole among the mountainsIn the faint moonlight, the grass is singingOver the tumbled graves, about the chapelThere is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.
-
Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
-
They were most correct, according to their god.
-
I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
-
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.
-
The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.
-
There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.
-
Neither space nor time has any existence outside the system of evolving relationships that comprises the universe. Physicists refer to this feature of general relativity as background independence.
-
If we knew we were not alone in the universe it would have a very, very deep impact on our worldview, on our understanding of our place in the universe.
