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John Vane Quotes

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Research University Found Application

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

Johann Georg Hamann

Freedom Nothing Dessert Reason Use

Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.

Vanity Down Cultures Image Own Some

I meet young people all the time who say something like, 'I want to work in venture capital.' And I can see why. Who wouldn't want to be smart, well-paid, dispense large sums of money, and tell people what to do?

Work Time Money Smart People I Can

Kate Moss, for example - she's never given a lot of interviews. She stays so mysterious. Nobody knows who she is, really.

Nobody Mysterious Never She Moss

It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors. Landlocked countries with failed or failing neighbors can lose access to the world economy.

Robert Zoellick

World Lose Neighbors Economy Sell

I would trade everything I have to have had a happier childhood.

Childhood Everything Trade Would Had

If I found the right guy, I think I would get married. Maybe. I just feel like it's just a contract. Why sign any more contracts, really?

Think Feel Why More Right Contracts

I think there's a lot of factors that go into the whole awards thing. I've never been that big a fan of it.

Think Go Never Awards Big Been

I'll always write picture books - it's just what I do. I'd even do it if I wasn't being paid.

Picture Write Always Paid Just Even

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Stand You Fall Stand For Something

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

Love Snow Me Sick Black Church

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.

Slow Feel Down Ready Place Where

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