Leo Szilard Quotes

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

Leo Szilard

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• If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Golf
  • Jewelry
  • Sugar

• I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Real
  • Job
  • Father

• In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Up
  • Home
  • Stop

• 'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • People
  • Past
  • Myself

• I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • May
  • Hope
  • Forever

• As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?

  

  Eddie Condon
  • Broken
  • Honey
  • Glass

• Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• I have always wanted to open up a brewery slash goat farm. Brew some beer, make some goat cheese, but that's kinda dreamy.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Up
  • Always
  • Beer

• I have to hear more live instrumentation, more band and more funk, and I don't hear enough of it, so I created it myself.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Live
  • Myself
  • Band

• Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Great
  • Doing
  • Watching

• I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Pretend
  • Smarter
  • Cooler

• A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Hand
  • Should
  • Kindness

• You cannot keep doing the same things. According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Different
  • Doing
  • Same

• Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Future
  • Today
  • Education

• The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

  

  Edward Irving
  • Heart
  • Respect

• I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • School
  • Movie

• Sometimes you wanna be James Bond, and sometimes you wanna be Marlon Brando until you realize you can't be either!

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.

• It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster.

  

  Jay Parini

• It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.

  

  Pat Tiberi
  • Job
  • Support
  • Plan

• 17,000 children starve on this planet every single day. That fact alone should blow any conscious person out of their chair. You know, my mother used to say that a woman's most important job is taking care of her children and her home. I laughed at that when I was younger, but I don't laugh at it anymore. I just realize that every child on the planet is one of our children, and the earth itself is our home.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Important
  • Children
  • Home

• Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come.

  

  Paul Cellucci
  • Struggle
  • Sacrifice
  • Terrorism

• For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Cases

• A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

  

  Leo Szilard