Alfred Nobel Quotes

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

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• It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Know
  • First
  • Boring

• As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Want
  • Voice
  • Tools

• I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Mom
  • Cool
  • Thought

• As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Important
  • Me
  • Health

• I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.

  

  Imelda May
  • Kind
  • Inspired
  • Wind

• Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Reputation
  • Washington
  • Some

• If you fire people, you fire customers.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Business
  • Fire

• If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • People
  • Real
  • Control

• Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Age

• Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Rich
  • Choose
  • Ignorant

• But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Live
  • Question
  • Always

• In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Political
  • Leader
  • Canada

• All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Up
  • Age
  • Growing

• We need a President who is fighting for all Americans, not one who writes off nearly half the country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Fighting

• His (Deschamps’) complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Age

• A mother’s traditional role prepared her to love her family by being with the family she loved.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Family
  • She
  • Mother

• Sorry, I’m not at home. I have gone out to my world Fancy, and I cannot be reached. Call back in a week, unless your business is urgent, in which case call back in a month.

  

  Jack Vance
  • World
  • Home
  • Business

• The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Wisdom

• O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Age
  • Pleasure
  • Regret

• For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.

  

  Sophocles
  • Life
  • Flee
  • Hades

• I'm a pretty open book, so not being out publicly felt inauthentic. Hopefully we can get to a point where your personal life isn't anybody else's business, but until then, it's less about people having to know about your sexuality than standing up for what's right and fighting for equality.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she practiced the art of bibliomancy, trusting the book to show her what it wanted her to know.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • She
  • Book
  • Read

• Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • School
  • High
  • Kid

• A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Men
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  • Recluse