Ada Yonath Quotes
I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
Quotes to Explore
-
When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
-
The migration wave can be stopped.
-
Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground.
-
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
-
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
-
The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.
-
Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
-
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
-
Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
-
Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.
-
I've been very lucky.
-
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
-
The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
-
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
-
This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
-
The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
-
I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
-
I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
-
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
-
I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.
-
The question on my husband's birthday is always, What do you get for the man who has nothing?
-
The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.
-
I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
