Paul Dirac Quotes

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

Paul Dirac

• Earth
• Star
• Flower

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • God
  • Why
  • Want

• The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Happy
  • Earth
  • Culture

• I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Power
  • Death
  • Earth

• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • World
  • Earth
  • Building

• I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Up
  • Star
  • Child

• When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Star

• Nor doomsday’s thunderous roar,Dismantling earth and stars - The cosmic beauties all to mar - Not Nature’s murderous mutiny,Nor man’s exploding destinyCan touch me here.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Nature
  • Earth

• If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • God
  • Death
  • Earth

• What happened this far remote would have little political impact on Earth. What the visual media could not carry into living rooms, the general public could not long remain exercised about. Statistically, a majority of the electorate could not or did not read complicated issues; no pictures, no news; no news, no event.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Long
  • Political
  • Earth

• Being a movie star isn't easy. It requires a lot of commitment and sacrifice. Your career goes through extreme ups and downs. You are judged all the time. Great things are written about you, but at the same time, not-so-good things are also said. At times, things are said about you that are completely untrue, and people mostly try to pull you down.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I remember being a teenager and watching 40-year-old Michael Jordan compete in his final All-Star game.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Remember
  • Game
  • Star

• It's man's work. My dad was gone at 4:30 in the morning and home at 8 at night, and he worked underground, and the last mine he worked in was 26 inches high in a lot of places. He liked the engineering of it - he liked the moving the earth and being able to extract something and put it back for reclamation. He enjoyed the whole process.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Work
  • Home
  • High

• For years, I was either referred to as a 'rubber-faced funny man' or 'the 'Men Behaving Badly' star.'

  

  Martin Clunes
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Star

• If you become a viral star, that is terrific!

  

  Al Walser
  • Star

• The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do with great artists; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Star
  • Youth
  • Fountain

• An unprecedented wave of enthusiasm for missionary work is sweeping the entire earth. It is not man-made! It comes from the Lord, who said, “I will hasten my work in its time” (D&C 88:73).

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Earth
  • Enthusiasm
  • Missionary

• I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

  

  David Eddings
  • Happy

• British actors used to be scared of the multi-year options that U.S. TV shows demand. That has changed, because the same is now happening in the U.K.

  

  Jamie Bamber

• Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

  

  Paul Dirac
  • Earth
  • Star
  • Flower