Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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• One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Energy

• I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Media

• On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Love
  • Help

• I was not an easy kid.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Easy
  • Kid

• My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Time
  • Real
  • Hero

• It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

  

  Quintilian
  • Words
  • Child
  • First

• I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Life

• Walk a mile in these Louboutins,But they don't wear these shits where I'm from.I'm not hating, I'm just telling you.I'm tryna let you know what the fuck that I've been through.

  

  Iggy Azalea

• There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it is no credit to that model.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Model

• Mon triste coeur bave à la poupe.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

• In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Cooking

• I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Life

• The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.

  

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
  • Business
  • Failure

• During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.

  

  Kevin Pietersen
  • Time

• Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Men
  • Women
  • Simple

• Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

  

  Epicurus
  • Justice

• The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

  

  Buddha

• You look at the road you could have taken, you know, I just think that's interesting... I've been on a lot of roads and I had to hitchhike on a couple of 'em... I have to be very honest: There's not an awful lot of regret in my life. I think that, you know, you learn from everything, and then, sometimes, you don't.

  

  Polly Bergen
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Taken

• My biggest regret? Not being knighted by the Queen. I should have been a knight, and I would have been knighted, if I hadn't written one horrible horrible Python sketch which I deeply deeply regret - cue Python sketch: 'Upper Class Twit of the Year'

  

  John Cleese
  • Regret

• I sincerely regret my actions in the game (Wednesday).

  

  Delmon Young
  • Game
  • Regret
  • Actions

• Father Time is whether you're an athlete or not an athlete. Father Time is always around. I think I'm just special.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Time
  • Father
  • Athlete

• The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Wish

• In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Regret
  • Chances