Jacob Bronowski Quotes
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.Jacob Bronowski
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
J. B. Priestley -
After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
Fat Joe -
Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
Patrick Kavanagh -
Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.
Yehuda Berg -
It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
Tate Taylor -
You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
Dan Hill
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
Gabe Paul -
Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
Walter Gropius -
Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
Ingrid Newkirk -
When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
Flannery O'Connor -
There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
Edgar Wright -
I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
A. N. Wilson
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
Ralph Baer -
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
Samuel Larsen -
It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
Tariq Ramadan -
Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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'Entrepreneur' is a French word.
Xavier Niel -
I'm a novelist from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations of British Columbia, both small coastal reserves hugging the rugged shores of the west coast.
Eden Robinson -
We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I grew up pretty fast. I had more responsibility than most 9-year-olds, and I've always been independent.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler -
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln -
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
Jacob Bronowski