John Vane Quotes

At first, I was able to use a Bunsen burner attached to my mother's gas stove, but the use of the kitchen as a laboratory came to an abrupt end when a minor explosion involving hydrogen sulphide spattered the newly painted decor and changed the colour from blue to dirty green!

John Vane

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 29, 1927 - November 19, 2004

Topics

MotherBlueGreenKitchenEndDirty

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

Jim Hightower

SlavesWagesJustEvenJobsIssue

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

Joan Didion

ReadingThinkYouSittingAimWill

I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.

John Lithgow

WalkRememberEasyFindNobodyDays

In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.

Jeff Bridges

MarriageFightSameOverDifferent

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

John W. Gardner

SimpleWorldPoliticalBackTwo

I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.

Mercedes McCambridge

SeaWomanI AmNakedMidnightWho

I've made some bad mistakes in life.

Tony Bellew

LifeMistakesBadMadeSome

'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.

Rob Sheffield

LifeActionGangsterBackFindFade

The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained.

Robbie Coltrane

LordRingsExplainedBackgrounds

I was very conscious of the film industry - a lot of people, neighbors, worked in it. I actually grew up doing a bit of extra work myself. I was homeschooled, and it was a way that I could make money. My parents let us do these jobs, and I never got very far, but I was much more interested in what everybody else was doing, and I liked being on set.

Martine Syms

WorkMyselfMoneyParentsPeople

I'm really excited because Interscope is really focused on artists. They've been working side by side with me creatively and allowing me to make a lot of the creative decisions, which you don't always hear about. That's why I didn't want to sign originally with a major label.

Daya

CreativeMeDecisionsYouWantWhy

I'm for comfort, not for style.

Chris Hemsworth

StyleComfort

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