Sean M. Carroll Quotes

Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.

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• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Quality
  • Patience
  • Physics

• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Character

• Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Done
  • Remember
  • Body

• Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Writers

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Book
  • Hate
  • Enough

• I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Anything
  • Ever
  • Did

• The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Why
  • Eye

• When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Live
  • Door

• From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Greatest
  • Irony
  • Horrors

• I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Country
  • Political
  • Posture

• It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Job
  • Tough
  • Ending

• If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.

  

  Larry David
  • Would
  • Miserable
  • Still

• I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Good
  • Think
  • Beauty

• You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Respect
  • Decisions
  • Debate

• You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Up
  • Star
  • Write

• The scope of linguistics should be:

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure

• We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last to be able to do anything about it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Generation
  • Impact
  • Last

• Today, crude oil is sold at the price of the Urals brand, and in terms of quality we have been losing big money. Given the oil directly reaches the final buyer, all that money will stay in Russia.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Price
  • Crude oil
  • Urals

• Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing on my own, and listening to my favorite artists growing up confirmed that love for music and made me want to pursue it as a career.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Up
  • Music
  • Age

• What the federal government can do, especially as it relates to urban, inner-city America, is invest resources that would help create jobs.

  

  Danny K. Davis
  • America
  • Help
  • City

• I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!

  

  Jessye Norman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.

  

  Sean M. Carroll
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