Margot Lee Shetterly Quotes

I guess it's inevitable that I would become somebody who would write about scientists.

Margot Lee Shetterly

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• I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • People
  • World
  • Explore

• What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Responsible

• I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I try to eat pretty clean, pretty good food.

  

  Parker Young
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Food

• Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Understanding
  • Choose
  • Cats

• I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

  

  Randy Travis
  • School
  • Study
  • Stand

• Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Day
  • Rest

• I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Year

• In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

  

  Tcheky Karyo
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Home
  • Water
  • Rose

• I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Children
  • Kids

• 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

• Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Wonderful
  • Honesty

• I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Say
  • Movement
  • Intellectual

• Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Choices
  • Cold
  • Decisions

• The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • Hurt
  • Economy
  • Taxes

• People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Mind
  • War

• It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Character
  • Action
  • Discipline

• The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Desire
  • Bed
  • Seriously

• The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see.

  

  Matthew Continetti
  • Up

• I remember running up to my dad and saying, 'I want to be an actor when I grow up!' And him saying, 'Yeah, well we'll talk about it.'

  

  Allen Leech
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Running

• Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

  

  Epictetus
  • Peace
  • Accept
  • Expect

• Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

  

  William Congreve
  • Men
  • Long
  • Funny

• I guess it's inevitable that I would become somebody who would write about scientists.

  

  Margot Lee Shetterly