J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
-
Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
-
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
-
Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
-
Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
-
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
-
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
-
I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.
-
Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
-
I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
-
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
-
Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
-
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
-
I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
-
Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
-
I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
-
When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
-
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
-
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
-
I'd rather live laughing for one year than live without laughing for one hundred.
-
Bob Weir calls me a saint, but I'm 'Saint Misbehavin'.' They're making a documentary about my life, and that's the current shooting title. I can roll with that, but otherwise the s-word makes me really paranoid.
-
When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.
-
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
