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

• I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• 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

• Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Like
  • Humor

• 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

• Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Exercise
  • Motherhood
  • Guilt

• 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've been irresponsible many, many, many times and that has resulted in my being fat.

  

  Kirstie Alley

• He did fan on the one, there's no question about that. But he didn't have much of a team in front of him.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Team
  • Question
  • Fan

• I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Sailing

• You can see that ladylike kind of dressing with a twist coming back at Dior, and I think that a lot of the fashion is following in those kinds of footsteps. It's wearable. It sits in your wardrobe forever.

  

  Emilia Wickstead
  • Fashion
  • Forever

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

  

  Niels Bohr
  • Serious
  • Joke
  • Subjects