Nicholas Haslam (Nicholas Ponsonby Haslam) Quotes

I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.

Nicholas Haslam

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• One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Science
  • Said

• I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • Life
  • Live
  • Kind

• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Different
  • Success
  • Man

• The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Time
  • You
  • Greatest

• Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Suffering
  • Principle

• Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Best

• Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Man
  • Year
  • Over

• I am glad that he thanks God for anything.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • God
  • Thanks

• The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mother
  • Boy
  • Aunt

• Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.

  

  Ovid
  • Chaos

• The only good time to say I have diarrhea is during a game of Scrabble, because it's worth a shitload of points.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Game

• Pushing people forward simply because of their colour, irrespective of merit, would be most unfortunate and would of course lead to disaster. It would mean that Rhodesia would then develop into a kind of banana republic where the country would in no time be bankrupt.

  

  Ian Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Tears

• And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care, but would still charge us up to 50 percent more than men - for a worse plan.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• We have a crisis in nuclear weapons, and again, thanks very much to the Democrats: Bill Clinton, who removed us from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty framework for nuclear disarmament, and then Barack Obama, who created a trillion-dollar budget for us to spend on a new generation of nuclear weapons and modes of delivery.

  

  Jill Stein
  • Thanks

• There's no grace period between album one and album two.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Period

• It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?

  

  David Letterman
  • Thanksgiving

• The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore.

  

  The Boz
  • Life
  • Football

• I wanted to create this dialogue between music and visual art and vice versa. No matter what part of the spectrum they fill, whether it's visual, music, or whatever, artists are interested in other art forms. Your brain is already kind of firing in that way.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Music
  • Art
  • Brain

• What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Character
  • Knowledge
  • Letters

• Basic research is to work at the very edge, the very border of, of knowledge, and move that border forward. You look and look for new secrets, and you don't know where it's going to lead you.

  

  Fred Kavli
  • Knowledge
  • Research
  • Forward

• I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Why
  • Science
  • Religion

• I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.

  

  Nicholas Haslam
  • Knowledge
  • Knowing
  • Thirst