Jacob Bronowski Quotes

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

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• I realize that things happen for a reason.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Reason
  • Happen
  • Realize

• I would like to direct.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Would
  • Direct

• When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Long
  • Play

• There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Listening
  • Silence

• I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • May
  • Poetry

• 'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Life
  • Time
  • Weird

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• An actor has to embody a role.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Actor
  • Role
  • Embody

• I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Love
  • Character
  • Find

• I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Team
  • Planning

• Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Heart
  • Beauty
  • Beholder

• For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.

  

  Washed Out
  • Great
  • Me
  • Creativity

• We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Friends
  • Young
  • Face

• Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Want
  • Positive
  • Inspire

• A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Black
  • Bird

• Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Want
  • Train
  • Diamond

• If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Man
  • Blame
  • Cricket

• No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

  

  Jeanette Winterson

• 'What dya mean theres no fackin chips, I come ere on a plane, you cunt! I've got children ere, what am I spose to do with this fackin tomato fiasco.'

  

  Dylan Moran
  • Children

• When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and our relationship in the sense of mother and child, redeemed my soul.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Soul

• I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Proud

• You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
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