Harry Kroto Quotes
At no point do I ever remember taking religion very seriously or even feeling that the biblical stories were any different from fairy stories. Certainly, none of it made any sense. By comparison, the world in which I lived, though I might not always understand it in all aspects, always made a lot of sense.
Quotes to Explore
-
Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.
-
If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
-
I was an English major in college!
-
A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
-
In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
-
I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
-
The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
-
Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.
-
Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
-
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
-
Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.
-
I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.
-
I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
-
If you truly believe in a united Jerusalem, deeds have to be more than words. We need a real united Jerusalem. It takes determination, audacity, and money to provide full services and law enforcement in the entire city.
-
My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
-
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
-
The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.
-
Rules emerge as a spontaneous order–they are found–not deliberately designed by one calculating mind. Initially constructivist institutions undergo evolutionary change adapting beyond the circumstances that gave them birth. What emerges is a form of 'social mind' that solves complex organization problems without conscious cognition.
-
The cinema that interests me departs from realism.
-
I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn't speak publicly.
-
I thought being on stage was an amazing feeling, but there is nothing that can top watching my wife bring our son into this world.
-
I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.
-
Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours - but not always.
-
At no point do I ever remember taking religion very seriously or even feeling that the biblical stories were any different from fairy stories. Certainly, none of it made any sense. By comparison, the world in which I lived, though I might not always understand it in all aspects, always made a lot of sense.
