Steven Weinberg Quotes

My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.

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• The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Problem
  • Impossible
  • Rich

• When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Growth
  • Successful
  • Now

• I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.

  

  Faye Resnick
  • Professional
  • Actress

• You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • American
  • You
  • College

• Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

  

  Ice T
  • Future
  • Want
  • Cinema

• I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Life
  • Past
  • Interesting

• My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Live
  • Pictures
  • Tools

• In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Luck
  • Tragedy
  • Few

• I love an iPad game of Scrabble.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Love
  • Game
  • Scrabble

• I started doing improv my sophomore year.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Doing
  • Year
  • Improv

• I just write songs and hope that they do well. I'm sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I'd rather keep away from it.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Hope
  • Pressure
  • Someone

• All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Reality
  • Easy
  • Author

• Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Life
  • High

• I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or chisel to remind you of your me-ness as I discover you in myself.

  

  Audre Lorde
  • Drug

• I will never, never ever sing on stage, but when I'm in the studio, I do sing melody lines. When I'm working with singer-songwriters, and I hear melodies, I can guide them. I will be like, 'Oh no, do this this this.' But you will never hear my voice on a Martin Garrix track.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21

• Sushi is one of my favorite foods.

  

  Dylan Penn

• There was never a moment when I was like, 'I'm going to enter the public conversation on the importance of female nudity.'

  

  Chelsea Handler

• It's never bad to be liked, and who doesn't feel good being liked, but that can't be your end game goal.

  

  Jessica Capshaw
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Game

• In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • May
  • Man
  • Action

• Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Action

• It rarely happens otherwise than that a thorough-faced coquette dies in celibacy, as a punishment for her attempts to mislead others, by encouraging looks, words, or actions, given for no other purpose than to draw men on to make overtures that they may be rejected.

  

  George Washington
  • Action
  • Purpose
  • Rejected

• They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time. The gap widened between the beauty, the seriousness of the work, and what it has become is beyond me. This level of marketing reduces to nothing the aesthetic and philosophical significance of this work.

  

  Christopher Tolkien
  • Book
  • Action
  • Marketing

• Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for!

  

  Joyce Grenfell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Depends

• My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.

  

  Steven Weinberg
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