Richard Preston Quotes

I think we sometimes give ourselves a little too much credit as humans, as being able to control and understand nature, when in fact we do neither.

Richard Preston

• Sometimes
• Humans
• Ourselves
• Neither

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• I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Work
  • Down
  • Test

• Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Personality
  • Successful

• My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Great
  • Wish
  • Honor

• The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Habit
  • Speech

• Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Life
  • Own
  • Most

• Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Good
  • Professional
  • Gracious

• Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Limits
  • Riches
  • Principal

• The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • People
  • Art
  • Movie

• I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Poetry
  • Admired
  • Peasants

• It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.

  

  Pat Cash
  • Something
  • Give
  • Pigeons

• I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• Our fashion style is very legendary and very classic. I feel like it's different, and I feel like everybody got our own different style to bring to the table.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Different
  • Fashion
  • Style

• No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Support
  • Questions
  • Rights

• When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Believe
  • Black

• It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Help

• Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Situation
  • Where
  • Interview

• I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egoistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Mean
  • Allowed
  • Egoistically

• I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Use
  • Research
  • Computer

• You may think that Andrew Breitbart, Glenn Beck, Fox News, and BigGovernment-dot-com were fighting against an enemy, and the enemy was ACORN, but I do not think that's the case at all. I think the enemy they were fighting against are the media. By not covering the story, not at all ... Breitbart showed that the media is no longer merely biased. They're no longer even ignoring the news. The mainstream media is now in the news suppression business.

  

  Bill Whittle
  • Business
  • Think
  • Government

• The Holy Koran, our religious book, teaches us, that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, do not participate in no wars, in no way, fashion or form, that take the lives of other humans.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Humans
  • Teaches
  • Muslims

• I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"

  

  Viola Davis
  • Want
  • Sometimes
  • Looks

• I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.

  

  Milla Jovovich
  • Friends
  • Movies
  • Acquaintances

• I think we sometimes give ourselves a little too much credit as humans, as being able to control and understand nature, when in fact we do neither.

  

  Richard Preston
  • Sometimes
  • Humans
  • Ourselves