Arthur D. Levinson Quotes

Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.

Arthur D. Levinson

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• I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Thought

• I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Myself
  • Dance
  • Fitness

• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Arrogance

• Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Why
  • Decision

• One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Me
  • Wants
  • Heroic

• The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Party
  • Challenge
  • Personality

• A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Identity
  • Self
  • Lose

• Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Up
  • Like
  • Kid

• Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Water
  • Skin
  • Cells

• Family, nature and health all go together.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Family
  • Together
  • Nature

• We feel as if we were hard labor convicts where everything but our feeding has been made subject to iron rules. We have become lost as human beings, and have been turned into slaves.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Lost

• Even though they, themselves, were material beings, they could show themselves to us only by taking on bodies that our senses were able to perceive.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac

• The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Long
  • Words
  • Courage

• Nobody ever wants to have change, that's for sure. But when it's good, it's really good.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Good

• I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Leaving

• It is by God's grace and provision that Hobby Lobby has endured. Therefore, we seek to honor God by operating the company in a manner consistent with biblical principles.

  

  David Green
  • God
  • Honor

• I have to work with the team at Blizzard and the producers on the film and convince them that, as a fan, I have a unique and hopefully entertaining way of taking people through the first contact story, which is really what sets up 'Warcraft' for everyone else.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

  

  Lord Dunsany
  • Experience
  • Imagination
  • Lifetime

• Brands, musicians, and public figures were among the first to embrace video on 'Instagram', and we've been impressed with how brands have extended their reach with video ads.

  

  Kevin Systrom

• Your protagonist is your reader's portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you're creating. They don't have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.

  

  Janet Fitch
  • World
  • Thinking
  • She

• She only knows headfirst. Shelley knows one way to play, and that's full speed.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Way
  • Play
  • Shelley

• I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

  

  Steve Martin
  • People
  • Funny
  • Inspiration

• Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.

  

  Arthur D. Levinson