Wolfgang Paul Quotes

God made solids, but surfaces were the work of the devil.

Wolfgang Paul

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• Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Mom
  • Bike
  • Never Forget

• I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Parents
  • Painful

• The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Religion
  • Tradition

• Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Way
  • Start
  • Luck

• I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • Character
  • Think
  • Fearless

• The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • People
  • Music
  • Respect

• I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Why
  • London
  • Marathon

• Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Period

• The forces of division have begun to raise their ugly head again … It reminds me: We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. A lot of pent-up anger and mistrust and bitterness. This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Country
  • History

• It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Age
  • Free
  • Faith

• I got to get your presence Let's make it known I think you're just so pleasant I would like you for my own

  

  Zooey Deschanel

• The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

  

  Alfred Bester
  • Mind
  • Reality

• Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Men
  • Father

• The power of the computer is starting to spread.

  

  Bill Budge
  • Power

• No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Weird

• Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.

  

  Robert W. Service
  • Promise
  • Made
  • Debt

• Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Want
  • Culture
  • You

• I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'

  

  Kathryn Hahn
  • Kids
  • Animal

• For Aristotelian physics the membership of an object in a given class was of critical importance, because for Aristotle the class defined the essence or essential nature of the object, and thus determined its behavior in both positive and negative respects.

  

  Kurt Lewin
  • Nature
  • Positive

• God made solids, but surfaces were the work of the devil.

  

  Wolfgang Paul
  • God
  • Made
  • Devil