John Hersey Quotes

The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.

John Hersey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 17, 1914 - March 24, 1993

Topics

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I'm not going to take a show unless I'm not sure I can do it. You have to have that sort of adrenaline.

Joe Johnston

YouI CanTakeGoingShowSure

The thing about school is that if you're forced into learning stuff, you're not going to be into it.

Joey Ramone

LearningSchoolYouGoingStuff

I hope that the restaurant I go to will have buffalo chicken fingers. I hope that one day I can work with Matt Damon. I have big and little dreams, and they're all equally important to me. A life without buffalo chicken fingers, I don't know if I would want that life. Even if it meant I got to work with Matt Damon. Everything has its worth.

Jenny Slate

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Designing a game can be like a Japanese garden. It's not what you put in but how much you take away.

Jenova Chen

GameYouGardenTakeAwayJapanese

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

Robert Southey

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Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I'm toiling away at the keyboard just like every other writer.

Jeaniene Frost

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I have a lot of my mother in me, but I was just born with the same parts as my father. I don't sound like him. I mean, I can do an impression of him right now, and I do not sound like him. I sound like me. My sense of rhythm I learned from my mother. My melodies, I think sometimes, I get from my mother.

Jeff Buckley

FatherMotherMeThinkI CanBorn

I would never encourage anyone to adopt a contractive posture. It's not good for you physically. It's not good for you psychologically.

Amy Cuddy

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My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

FatherUpItalianHeHouseholdGrew

My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So that's how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.

Dimitar Sasselov

ParentsMeSmallHobbyProfessional

I prefer the paycheck of television and the experience of theater.

Deirdre Lovejoy

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My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My, the man play that guitar nice.'

Peter Tosh

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