Norman Pirie Quotes
My teacher, Hopkins, often commented on the craving for certainty that led so many physicists into mysticism or into the Church and similar organisations ... Faith seems to be an occupational hazard for physicists.
Quotes to Explore
-
Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
-
I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
-
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
-
Trade agreements are important because they open up new marketplaces to small businesses, which ultimately translates into more jobs and greater economic growth.
-
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
-
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
-
I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.
-
For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
-
How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.
-
I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.
-
All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
-
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while... you don't do things right once in a while... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.
-
Come on, come onDon't leave me like this.I thought I had you figured out.Something's gone terribly wrong,You're all I wanted.Come on, come onDon't leave me like this.I thought I had you figured out.Can't breathe whenever your gone,Can't turn backNow I'm haunted.
-
I believe honestly that I can talk. I believe that I have the ability to reason, I have logic, I have compassion, I have understanding. If we talk there's no problem you know what I'm saying. But that's not what happened. People used what they heard in media and that's how they come at me, and then you know we got a clash.
-
I find I'm a good deal more of a socialist than I thought I was: maybe not technically, politically, so, but intrinsically, in my meanings.
-
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
-
Anonymous comments? You're not in the arena, man. If you can't say it to me in person in front of my kids, don't say it.
-
I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality.
-
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
-
When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.
-
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.
-
These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.
-
It's always scary when you're doing a sequel to a film, because you don't want to just repeat the first film in a different location like most sequels. You want to do something totally different, and something that actually expands the world of the main character.
-
My teacher, Hopkins, often commented on the craving for certainty that led so many physicists into mysticism or into the Church and similar organisations ... Faith seems to be an occupational hazard for physicists.
