Alan Lightman Quotes

If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.

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• I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Research
  • Academic
  • Storyteller

• Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • House
  • Working
  • Office

• I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Done

• I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Action
  • Doing

• I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Movie
  • Day
  • Challenge

• Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • World
  • Family
  • War

• I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Romantic

• Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Time
  • Space
  • Present

• An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Team

• Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Me
  • Said
  • Yes

• And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Art
  • Myself
  • Curious

• When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Like
  • Trump
  • Silent

• Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Conflict
  • The Right Thing

• When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Writing
  • Isolation

• Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Death
  • Change

• If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Worry
  • Big

• The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Up
  • Question
  • Perfume

• We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database 12c, and our programming language brand is this thing called Java.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Strong
  • Language
  • Brand

• Think what you want, this is what we are.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • What You Want

• Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Me
  • Useful
  • Facebook

• My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

  

  Bo Jackson
  • Life
  • Running
  • Football

• And it's easy to stay grounded. The ground is very close. And we walk on it every day.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Walk
  • Close
  • Grounded

• Regarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It's part of acting.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Green

• If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.

  

  Alan Lightman
  • Time
  • Women
  • Running