Paul Dirac Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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Those who go along get along.
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I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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I don't have a complex mind.
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I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometric progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.
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I'm an early riser, which is sometimes a drag when I have late-night concerts. But I prefer to wake up early - say, 8:30 - and maybe take a nap during the day.
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I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.
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I tried to get people at 'South Park' into 'Downton Abbey,' and it didn't work. I think they were like, 'Downton Abbey?' What?' And I kinda made a big plea in the writer's room, like, 'Guys, you should really watch it. It's good. It's addicting. My wife and I are obsessed with it.'
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I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she said, 'My nuns and I take very good care of ourselves so we can tend to the lepers and do whatever we need to assist.' If you're strong, or at least not hurting, you can inspire others.
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A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give.
