Ivar Giaever Quotes
If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.
Ivar Giaever
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
Kate Grenville
The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
Octavia Spencer
I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
Ice T
I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.
Nancy Reagan
I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
Warren Farrell
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Samuel Beckett
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
Salman Rushdie
Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.
Upamanyu Chatterjee
As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
Nadia Ali
Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.
Ian Mckellen
Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
Vijay Singh
You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
Al Stewart
Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well."
William Ewart Napier
She touched his hand for the last time. "Oh, Karim, that we have already done. But always there was a problem between us. How can I explain? I wasn't me, and you weren't you. From the very beginning to the very end, we didn't see things. What we did--we made each other up."
Monica Ali
Don't blow your load on the first stroke, fellas.
Christopher Allsopp
It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.
George Stevens
If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.
Ivar Giaever
