C. B. van Niel Quotes

In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.

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• I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Wonder
  • motivation
  • I Wonder

• If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Cricket

• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Sometimes
  • Laugh
  • I Can

• We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Want
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Different
  • Character
  • Experience

• I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Real
  • Blues
  • Captain

• I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Myself
  • Try
  • I Can

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Life
  • Up
  • War

• All of my main characters have been under 30.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Characters
  • Been
  • Main

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• Have a little faith. Don't give up.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Faith
  • Give

• I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Amazing

• I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Home

• When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Night
  • Single
  • Myself

• The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

  

  Abraham Kuyper
  • Like
  • Existence
  • Poor

• I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Church
  • Christian

• For his the artist's life is, of necessity, full of conflicts, since two forces fight in him: the ordinary man with his justified claim for happiness, contentment, and guarantees for living on the one hand, and the ruthless creative passion on the other, which under certain conditions crushes all personal desires into the dust.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Hand
  • Passion

• I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

  

  Kevin Dunn
  • School
  • High
  • College

• I am Jim Gray, and I am the guy who is going to beat Rand Paul.

  

  Jim Gray
  • Guy

• To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

  

  Arthur Cohn
  • America

• In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.

  

  C. B. van Niel
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