Richard Feynman Quotes

A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.

Richard Feynman

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• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
  • Voice

• I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Important
  • Women
  • Country

• I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Think

• We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Writing
  • Study
  • Speech

• I'm not cynical.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Cynical

• I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • New
  • Building

• The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • You
  • Mistakes
  • Desperate

• I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Country
  • Better
  • Healthy

• Our true nationality is mankind.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • True
  • Mankind
  • Our

• When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Thinking
  • Reaction
  • Fragrance

• If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Think
  • You
  • Evil

• It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • You
  • Surprise
  • Washington

• As a rule, you'll not have much trouble having your way, if you are right.

  

  E. W. Howe

• Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People
  • Real
  • Proud

• D'euls deus fu il tut autresiCume del chevrefoil esteitKi a la codre se perneit:Quant il s'i est laciez e prisEnsemble poënt bien durer;Mes ki puis les volt deservrer,Li codres muert hastivementE li chevrefoil ensement.'Bele amie, si est de nus:Ne vus sanz mei, ne mei sanz vus!'

  

  Marie de France

• To the world,You may be just another girl.But to me,Baby, you are the world.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • World
  • May
  • Girl

• Will there be a political backlash against British Prime Minister Theresa May, whose ruling Conservative Party is traditionally seen as 'stronger' on terrorism than its main rival, the Labour Party?

  

  Peter Bergen
  • May
  • Political
  • Party

• I don't feel that I have to prove anything to anyone as far as what I've done in fighting.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Done
  • Fighting

• It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.

  

  David Frankel
  • People
  • Sad

• Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.

  

  John Backus
  • Writing
  • Computer
  • Lazy

• Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.

  

  Michel Houellebecq
  • Universe
  • Littles
  • Might

• I'm very protective of all the vulnerable young kids that go on shoots. I can empathize. I've been there.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • Kids

• Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.

  

  Jesse Kellerman
  • Life
  • Writing
  • School

• A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Writing
  • Universe
  • Enough