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
Quotes to Explore
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
When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.
Uday Kotak
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
I make the girls jump like I'm Kris Kross
Nicki Minaj
You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.
Earl Hines
Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.
Andy Roddick
But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you're alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you...Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That's necessary for survival. But don't lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won't really have survived at all.
Louis Sachar
The four most powerful words in the English language - please, thanks, sorry and why.
Wendy Alexander
