William Cecil Dampier Quotes

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.

William Cecil Dampier

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• There has to be a global mission of human progress.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Progress
  • Human
  • Mission

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Country
  • Parents

• People don't care about questionnaires.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Care
  • About

• I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Enjoy

• All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Fear
  • Air
  • Enough

• The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Man
  • Peace
  • Religion

• Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

  

  Barack Obama
  • You
  • Stop
  • Over

• I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Real
  • Pretty

• Democracy will win - because a government’s legitimacy can only come from citizens; because in this age of information and empowerment, people want more control over their lives, not less; and because, more than any other form of government ever devised, only democracy, rooted in the sanctity of the individual, can deliver real progress.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Real
  • Age

• 'All my life,' I said, 'knowledge has come to me for which I was not ready.'

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Life
  • Knowledge

• However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.

  

  Mary Beard
  • May

• Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Great
  • Why
  • College

• I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get an attitude. I had no idea what he was talking about.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Remember
  • Attitude
  • Makeup

• I started 'The Rainmaker' in August 1996, and I've been working consistently ever since. It's not like I had some grand plan; I keep getting offered jobs so good I can't say no.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Good
  • August

• Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

  

  Clive Bell
  • Mistake

• A racing driver has to be a good driver.

  

  Emerson Fittipaldi
  • Good

• I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in more social settings as opposed to being confined to the church.

  

  Kathryn Lasky
  • Church
  • Feminist

• Being a kid's not easy. You're transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you're out in the world.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • World

• I've been playing music since I was born.

  

  Chord Overstreet
  • Music

• It is no use trying to sum people up.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Trying
  • Use

• To all the young kids of color - and not so young - people who want to use their voices, who are thinking, 'This seems difficult because I don't see myself out there,' I tell you, you must be persistent because we need you. We need you so, so badly.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Channels
  • Reliance

• Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.

  

  William Cecil Dampier
  • Thinking
  • Science
  • Accidents