Joshua Foer Quotes

As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.

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• Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Space
  • Need
  • Save

• I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• Running back was always my favorite position.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Running
  • Always
  • Back

• Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Time
  • Science
  • Practice

• Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Country
  • Animals
  • Through

• Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stage
  • Walk
  • Affection

• Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Heart
  • Beauty
  • Beholder

• I work with directors who haven't had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it's an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Movie

• If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • America
  • Control

• To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Time
  • Care

• Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.

  

  Jack Carroll
  • Business
  • Care
  • Greatest

• Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to roll with it 'cause that's what makes it funny. It's not being stuck in your character and how you're gonna do something, but to react to other people and to really have a real-life conversation.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Rich

• I always eat a huge breakfast on match days even though my stomach hates it.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Always
  • Breakfast
  • Eat

• The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Problem
  • Answer
  • Principle

• The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Alive

• I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Truth
  • Drive
  • Truth Is

• I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Job
  • Like
  • Feel

• As soon as people hear my voice and synthesizer together they hear Erasure.

  

  Andy Bell Oasis
  • People
  • Voice
  • Hear

• I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.'

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Comedy

• The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.

  

  Jane Mayer
  • Trying
  • Military
  • Abuse

• I'm sure my children will be artists. I hope they will direct because it is much more interesting. Acting is great, and I love it, but it is very passive, and it depends on other people's desire, and you depend on others all the time.

  

  Emmanuelle Seigner
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Remember
  • Memories
  • Names