Leonard Susskind Quotes

Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it? And, you know, everybody has their own idea about what it is, but there's no coherent final consensus on why there is space.

Leonard Susskind

• Why
• Space
• Devil
• Consensus

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Live
  • Why
  • Cooking

• Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • Stop
  • Learning

• Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Sometimes
  • Saying
  • Silent

• I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Dark
  • Aggressive
  • Aggression

• Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Me

• Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Never
  • Through
  • Nurse

• I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Good
  • Political
  • Boy

• I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Good
  • Think
  • Guy

• With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.

  

  Sam Simon
  • People
  • Know
  • See

• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Stories

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Trust

• There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Goal
  • Loss

• I don't have a strong interest in history.

  

  Larry Niven
  • History
  • Strong
  • Interest

• I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll at FAO Schwartz when I was in high school. And I think that it's made me really disciplined when it came to pursuing acting, because I had no clue how to go about it.

  

  Cara Buono
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• I'm used to doing independent film where the style is a lot more casual. With improvising, you obviously find so much out on the day - and in a way, I feel more comfortable doing that.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Day
  • Style
  • Independent

• At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • School
  • Dance
  • Worst

• Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Church
  • Prayer
  • Teeth

• Anita: My life works for me right now, but it wouldn't work for a child. Ronnie: Why, because you don't have a husband? Anita: No, because people try to kill me on a semiregular basis.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Change

• When you're out on the touchline, like a winger, it is easier to play. You see everything: the mess, the crowd, the activity is all inside. When you play inside, you don't see anything in there because so much is happening in such a small space and all around you.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • Small
  • Space

• A director has to be on the set when the crew is called and is the last one to leave at night. I'm not saying it's not possible, but that's partly why we're not seeing more women.

  

  Dana Walden
  • Women
  • Why
  • Night

• I have a terrible problem with procrastination... a friend told me, 'Well, you should go to therapy.' And I thought about it, but then I said, 'Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?' And that's when I got the idea of touring.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Why
  • Friend
  • Procrastination

• Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it? And, you know, everybody has their own idea about what it is, but there's no coherent final consensus on why there is space.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Why
  • Space
  • Devil