Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes

I know from another pulsar astronomer who won the Nobel that you get no peace. You're asked about every subject under the sun. It quite wrecks your life.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: July 15, 1943

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LifePeaceSunYouKnowGet

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

MorningTreeQualityRootsWind

From my second son Gustav, I bought one of his complaints for 200 kroner. He was complaining that he was a middle child - he wasn't the beloved first child, and he wasn't the cute little youngest child. So I said, can I use that same wording in a film? And he said yeah. So I bought it from him.

Stellan Skarsgard

SonCuteChildSaidComplainingHim

Every match I won in a Grand Slam, I take confidence of that, and when I arrive in a final, I know my game is there.

Stan Wawrinka

ConfidenceGameKnowFinalTakeWon

I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.

Steve Vai

TodayMeStoryImpactDoingLook

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.

Tom Hicks

WorkReputationYouTableWantWill

My resume showed membership on both the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews, a credit impressive abroad where it was not generally known that Law Reviews were student-operated publications.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

LawCreditResumeMembershipHarvard

You know when people start talking about freedom they have to be old. They gotta be old-fashioned and really out of touch. Freedom? Well, what's that? Who needs any of that?

Rush Limbaugh

FreedomPeopleStartTalkingYou

I've never been a social bunny. I thrive on work.

Michelle Ryan

WorkThriveNeverBunnySocialBeen

In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.

Michio Kaku

LifeFutureI CanWillGenetically

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

Mo Yan

CourageCompassionKnowUnderstand

Cristiano is one of the best players of all-time - there's no doubt about it.

Julen Lopetegui

BestDoubtPlayersNo DoubtAbout

I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.

Dennis Quaid

JobLongThreeMoreNeverOut

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