Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Quotes

There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.

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• I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Band

• I love America a lot. I really do.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Love
  • America
  • Really

• Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • May
  • Understanding
  • Same

• The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Study

• Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • World
  • Intelligent
  • Doctor

• Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Union
  • Matrimony
  • Martyrdom

• Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Career

• Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Power
  • Will
  • Quiet

• Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Discovery

• When you're shooting a movie, it's two months of your life usually. You don't really have time to see anybody else. Your friends are put on hold while you're shooting, and what you have is the family that you create on set.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• I can get away with anything. But when I try to be sincere, people just roll their eyes.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Eyes
  • I Can

• I really like the Gorillaz and Arctic Monkeys.

  

  Jay IDK

• We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Battle

• The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Men
  • California

• I believe one can make women happier by bringing both more white and more colour into their lives. I’m sure that someday Paris streets will be as full of colour as one can see now on African and Asian streets. It’s ridiculous to focus on hemlines. Wearing my clothes is a question of spirit.

  

  Andre Courreges
  • Spirit
  • Clothes
  • Colour

• All is flux, nothing is stationary.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Flux
  • Stationary

• And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Growing

• Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • France
  • Others
  • Italy

• The Way teaches that people outside the cult are evil - of the Devil. In line with that belief, the members tried to alienate me from my family, to whom I am very close, and from my friends. So I just drifted away. In seeing my three-month involvement as 'just a phase,' my parents were lucky rather than wise.

  

  Michael O'Keefe
  • People
  • Family
  • Parents

• There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.

  

  Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
  • Outside
  • Lightning
  • Thunderclap