Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Quotes

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

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• I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Sad
  • Right
  • Very

• Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • Why
  • Night

• I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Relationship

• I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Kids
  • Band
  • Cool

• Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Wife
  • Soup
  • Sharing

• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  

  Rachel Field
  • May
  • Think
  • Ambition

• New York City is my favorite city in the world.

  

  Halston Sage
  • World
  • City
  • New York

• I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Hard Work
  • Fail

• If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

  

  Beck
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Judgment

• She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

  

  O. Henry
  • Woman
  • Act
  • Invisible

• Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Moment
  • Page
  • Prepare

• We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Different
  • Places
  • Sand

• I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.

  

  Malachi Throne
  • Money
  • Wind
  • Same

• I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • People
  • City
  • New York

• If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Start
  • Police
  • Edge

• Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.

  

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer
  • Mind
  • Genius
  • Conditions

• My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Girl
  • Sweet

• Our path to Palestine will not be covered with a red carpet or with yellow sand. Our path to Palestine will be covered with blood… In order that we may liberate Palestine, the Arab nation must unite, the Arab armies must unite, and a unified plan of action must be established

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • May
  • Action
  • Path

• Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective.

  

  Joe Nichols
  • Up

• Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • She
  • Remember

• The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • American
  • Girl
  • Teenager

• As you know, my father was for the inclusiveness and the betterment of society and the world. Certainly we recognize that there are diverse voices in our country, and people have the right of free speech. They have the right of choice, but again, it is our hope that when they choose, they choose to reflect those ideals that he taught us.

  

  Bernice King
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

  

  Clyde Tombaugh
  • Science
  • Bible

• I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

  

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
  • Society
  • Science
  • Usefulness