Eve Curie (Ève Denise Curie Labouisse) Quotes

The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an animal or a person to be left near a tube of radium without immediately acquiring a notable "activity" which a sensitive apparatus could detect.

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• Psychiatry causes so much death.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Death
  • Causes
  • Psychiatry

• I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • City
  • Born
  • New

• I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Dog
  • Webster

• Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Vintage
  • Some People

• In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Games

• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Taste

• It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts

• Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Movie
  • You

• Haiti is in desperate poverty.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Poverty
  • Desperate
  • Haiti

• Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Long
  • Live
  • War

• My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Work
  • Always
  • Project

• I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Time
  • TV

• I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Farm

• The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Time
  • Long
  • Desire

• There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.

  

  Vince Cable
  • People
  • Financial
  • Debt

• I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Writing
  • Deep
  • Process

• 'Portlandia' - love it. I can consume three episodes of it without even realizing I'm watching TV.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Love
  • Three
  • Without

• I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Women
  • Always
  • Inspired

• 'I'm excited by the band White Stripes. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.'

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Band

• My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

  

  Jamelia
  • Up
  • Work

• I deferred my third-year studies from university to go full time sailing to try and qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, which I did. I tried to go back to the university, but having won the silver medal, I just haven't been able to get back. And now I'm not sure if I ever will.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Time
  • London
  • Sailing

• I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn’t find any.

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Trousers
  • Camouflage

• These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cute, but they will bite. Not only do I look at dogs as animals, I look at myself as an animal, which explains why, since I got my permit, I drive with my head out the window.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Why
  • Myself

• The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an animal or a person to be left near a tube of radium without immediately acquiring a notable "activity" which a sensitive apparatus could detect.

  

  Eve Curie
  • Science
  • Animal
  • Impossible