Harry Kroto Quotes

Without evidence, anything goes. Think about it. Common sense says the sun goes round the Earth. Who agrees with me?

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• My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • God
  • Love

• New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • New
  • Behavior
  • Passive

• I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Mean
  • Dirt
  • Umpire

• If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Better

• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • True
  • Imagination
  • Vision

• I feel like I ask people who have been in the industry for a while a lot of questions.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Feel
  • Questions

• Tempus edax rerum.

  

  Ovid

• Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • History
  • Man

• Within the horizon of this western myth, love is understood as the artificial restraining of our natural impulses toward unbridled aggression.

  

  Sam Keen

• Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor-that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Work
  • Men
  • Heart

• Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Life
  • World
  • True

• He is immensely fat, and so Well suits the occupation: In point of fact, if you must know, We used to call him years ago, THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION!

  

  Lewis Carroll

• My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.

  

  Joan Rivers
  • Control

• Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats
  • Done
  • Road

• I'm a goofball, and I have this huge personality, and I used to try to hide that. I used to try to kind of dim my light.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Light
  • Personality

• It's great - that's the best part about being famous is that people want to get to know me. People come up to me and introduce themselves, and I make friends, and then I meet their friends. It seems like I have a very happy and comfortable social life, which is something I never had when I was younger.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • World
  • Single
  • Democracy

• I really love my chosen craft. No matter whether it's disappearing or disappeared from the mainstream, that's really been where my mind and heart is.

  

  Charles Bock
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

  

  Ella Maillart
  • Live
  • Simple

• I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Feeling
  • Murder
  • Absolute

• In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

  

  Pliny the Elder

• My new favorite thing is to wake up in hotel rooms, and write on the hotel pads. Usually, it's nothing. I leave it in a hotel and get really embarrassed about the maid picking it up, wondering what in the hell I'm talking about.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Wonder

• Without evidence, anything goes. Think about it. Common sense says the sun goes round the Earth. Who agrees with me?

  

  Harry Kroto
  • Earth
  • Evidence
  • Common Sense