Geoffrey Wilkinson Quotes

My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.

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• Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Life
  • Like
  • Winning

• I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Like
  • Priorities
  • Remembered

• The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Business
  • American
  • English

• Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Experience
  • Black
  • Interesting

• Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Great
  • Chance
  • Memories

• I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Money
  • Together

• I never do anything to my hair. I just wash it. It tends to get dry, so I just try to put good, natural oils in it. I do a deep conditioning mask, which is quite good.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Deep

• The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

  

  Octavian Paler
  • Fight
  • Down
  • Ghosts

• You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Vote

• Harvard is the home of American ideas.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Home
  • American
  • Ideas

• I've always been a bit of a documentarian.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Always
  • Been
  • Bit

• Vegas is kind of crazy because there's so much going on. Everyone goes there to be entertained.

  

  Adam G. Sevani
  • Kind
  • Crazy
  • Vegas

• I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Kids
  • Beach
  • Away

• It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• I haven't signed as many films as I'd like to because there are no good roles, as disheartening as it is to say.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Good
  • Like
  • Say

• At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Up
  • School
  • Said

• The whole 'School of Rock' experience was really cool, and just meeting new people from all over.

  

  Caitlin Hale
  • People
  • School
  • Experience

• I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Brother
  • Smoking

• My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'

  

  Ariel Winter
  • She
  • Mother
  • Dad

• I'm in a funny position: I've been in one band in my life and that was with my brother. As incredible as that has been, I feel like I'm missing out a little bit on being in a real rock band - or how I imagine being in a real rock band to be. It's like being in a street gang: you all wear the same leather jacket or whatever.

  

  Eleanor Friedberger
  • Brother
  • My Life
  • Position

• I grew up with television. I love television and to be working in it is awesome. I think where I do well at television is because I grew up watching the great sitcom actors Jackie Gleason, I love Rob Reiner, also John Ritter.

  

  Steve Howey
  • Television
  • Watching
  • Grew Up

• My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.

  

  Geoffrey Wilkinson
  • Brother
  • Through
  • Chemistry