Richard Feynman Quotes

I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.

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• President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Together
  • Principles

• The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Children
  • Family
  • Death

• A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Work
  • Great
  • Liberty

• Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Powerful
  • Cold

• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Director
  • Come
  • Court

• No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Person
  • Honor
  • Reward

• I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Know

• A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Think

• It's always good to play tennis with a better player to bring out the best in you.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Good
  • Play
  • Best

• It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Dance

• Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Think
  • Language
  • Magic

• I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Food
  • Favorite
  • Take

• Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Treasure

• I love those moments in any movie or film where there's a reference to a bigger picture, especially in Marvel where everything is connected.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Movie
  • Moments
  • Picture

• I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.

  

  Jodie Foster

• Especially with the live, just the way I curve words, it's about expression. It's so emotive, to be able to release these words into a mike. It really emphasizes this insane tingle down my spine whenever I play.

  

  Archy Ivan Marshall
  • Live
  • Words

• I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.

  

  Eli Roth
  • Lost

• A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

  

  Kevin Kelly
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Society

• In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Good
  • Book
  • American

• I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

  

  Rashida Jones
  • Enough
  • Disappointment
  • Heartache

• I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Enough
  • Smart
  • Grace