George Coyne Quotes

Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.

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• I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Like
  • Things
  • Repeat

• It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Beach

• Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Want
  • Song
  • Rock

• One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Things
  • Still

• The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Energy
  • Matter
  • Diet

• You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Win
  • Born
  • Plan

• I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Family
  • Said

• Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Life
  • Music
  • Wish

• I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Believe
  • Myself
  • Learn

• I suffer panic attacks which has made me really conscious about my fitness and I have become addicted to jogging. It might sound odd but a lot of good has come out of it. My fans send letters saying they have taken up jogging because I do it.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • Good
  • Taken

• No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Single
  • Human
  • Sacrifice

• In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Space
  • Noise
  • Vacuum

• Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Done
  • Stones

• And how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Time
  • Home
  • Remember

• The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • History
  • Values

• What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Language
  • Ability
  • Economy

• I really like writing music. That's kind of like my little hobby. I like that because sometimes you don't really have any control when you're an actor, over what you're doing next, and everything is kind of decided by other people. You're always waiting to hear from people.

  

  Amelia Warner
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Hobby

• I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.

  

  Gerald Stern
  • Artist
  • Jobs
  • Literally

• Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.

  

  George Coyne
  • Ability
  • Development
  • Christianity