Jacob Bronowski Quotes

Let me close by reminding you of what Newton actually did on the day that he conceived

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• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Time
  • Country
  • Why

• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Black
  • Running

• Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Time
  • American
  • Study

• We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • War
  • Human
  • Financial

• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Believe
  • Win
  • First

• Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Brain
  • Eye
  • Everything

• God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Nature

• The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Glory
  • Chief

• L.A. is definitely a Marmite sort of place for me. I used to hate it, but now I love it. I think it really helps if you know the places and the restaurants and the nice bars to go to and if you have friends there. I've got some friends over there now, and they're not all actors, which is quite refreshing, and now I have a great time there.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
  • Great
  • Love

• I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Spirit

• I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.

  

  Wale
  • Respect
  • Place
  • Start

• There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Children
  • Hope
  • Dark

• When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting hanging on the wall of a stately home in England. It's not until you limp into your 70s that people in their 40s look too young to vote, and college cheerleaders closely resemble Yorkshire terriers.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Home
  • College

• I don't want to say PSG is a step backwards, but It would be returning to something I already know. I'm always in for new challenges. When I will leave Chelsea one day, it would be to discover something new.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Day
  • Challenges
  • Step

• The light's hot, everything’s hot, I’m hot.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Light
  • Hot

• Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Reading
  • Moving
  • Notes

• As we may know, osteoporosis affects around 10 million Americans, most of whom are over 55, and it is the cause of an estimated 1.5 million fractures annually.

  

  Lois Capps
  • May

• Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Done
  • Happy

• The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Time
  • World
  • Creation

• Let me close by reminding you of what Newton actually did on the day that he conceived

  

  Jacob Bronowski