Scarlett Thomas Quotes

So if we're all quarks and electrons ..." he begins. What?" We could make love and it would be nothing more than quarks and electrons rubbing together." Better than that," I say. "Nothing really 'rubs together' in the microscopic world. Matter never really touches other matter, so we could make love without any of our atoms touching at all. Remember that electrons sit on the outside of atoms, repelling other electrons. So we could make love and actually repel each other at the same time.

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• Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • People
  • Same
  • Said

• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Beginning
  • Dance
  • Much

• I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Pressure
  • Hard Work

• Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Today
  • Fight

• Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Woman
  • Hip Hop
  • Complex

• I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Always

• Never fight an inanimate object.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Fight

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Work
  • Success

• A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Good
  • Done
  • Trust

• Everybody in my family cooks, so growing up and being around it... if I was going to spend time with everybody, it was helping them in the kitchen.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Why

• It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Idea
  • German
  • Legal

• Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Good
  • Important
  • Feeling

• Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Time
  • Water

• Como las paga el vulgo, es justohablarle en necio para darle gusto.

  

  Lope de Vega

• If you get behind in first grade, then you're behind every grade from then on.

  

  Blake Griffin

• Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Success
  • Education
  • Failure

• Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu

  

  Mother Teresa

• More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • World
  • May
  • Language

• I grew up in a miniature village in the middle of the countryside in England, quite secluded from the outside world. I was always enamored by the fashion industry.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • Up
  • World
  • Fashion

• Do you remember what happened the night of March 23?

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Remember
  • Night
  • Happens

• So if we're all quarks and electrons ..." he begins. What?" We could make love and it would be nothing more than quarks and electrons rubbing together." Better than that," I say. "Nothing really 'rubs together' in the microscopic world. Matter never really touches other matter, so we could make love without any of our atoms touching at all. Remember that electrons sit on the outside of atoms, repelling other electrons. So we could make love and actually repel each other at the same time.

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • World
  • Remember
  • Together