Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson) Quotes

I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies.

Ernest Rutherford

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• I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Black
  • Community

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
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• When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

  

  Quincy Jones
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• When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Really
  • Hurts
  • Says

• You were born as the one you are.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • You
  • Born
  • Were

• I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Weird

• I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Time
  • Style
  • Same

• Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Different
  • Country
  • True

• He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • More
  • Exhausted
  • Sooner

• I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Up
  • Job
  • Know

• I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Home
  • Dress
  • Robe

• Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Simple
  • Stupid

• You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Son

• Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.

  

  Eric Davis
  • Job
  • Baseball

• Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

  

  David Broder

• Ask yourself why a red carpet is red. It could be any colour.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Why
  • Red

• I think the key is to give the reader characters they not only care about, but identify with, and to never take away all hope.

  

  Lynn Flewelling
  • Hope

• To promote a woman to beare rule, superioritie, dominion or empire above any realme, nation, or citie, is repugnant to nature, contumelie to God, a thing most contrarious to his reveled will and approved ordinance, and finalie it is the subversion of good order, of all equitie and justice.

  

  John Knox
  • Good
  • God
  • Nature

• Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by.

  

  Winifred Kirkland
  • Thinking
  • Jesus
  • Familiarity

• In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • American
  • Hand

• I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • Science
  • Track
  • Investigation