Niels Bohr (Niels Henrik David Bohr) Quotes

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

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• Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Forget

• My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Believe
  • She
  • Character

• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • May
  • Man
  • Hero

• I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Career
  • Always
  • Never

• When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Write
  • Worth

• I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Ireland

• I would say 'American Werewolf in London' is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the buddy dies 20 minutes in, he still remains throughout the picture, and their partnership is one of the best things in the movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • American
  • Movie
  • Best

• I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV is that when you think 'Christian,' you think 'goody two shoes' - they have to look a certain way and do certain things - and it's just not true.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Life
  • Real
  • True

• Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Great
  • You
  • Musicians

• You know what would be a fun game? If Pac-Man was on a beach, and he was chomping coconuts. You could see how tan you could get your Pac-Man.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Beach

• Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Food
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Food

• I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Always
  • Son
  • Husband

• I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• Within a few weeks of coming back from filming 'Lemonade Mouth,' I got these scripts, and 'Terra Nova' was the one that stuck out. I was like, 'Oh my gosh'.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Like
  • Back
  • Mouth

• They talk as if England were not in Europe.

  

  Edmund Burke

• I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Children
  • Why
  • Remember

• The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!

  

  Christopher Atkins
  • Guy
  • Feeling

• We need to get big money out of Washington.

  

  Conner Eldridge
  • Money

• Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Accomplish

• There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Desire
  • Ambition
  • Spy

• Perhaps he Mondrian was too faithful to a single discovery. And perhaps that kind of painting was right for the period. But now peace and harmony are no longer possible. There is only anguish.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Painting
  • Harmony
  • Discovery

• I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Same

• Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Country
  • Job
  • Today

• Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

  

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