Rita Levi-Montalcini Quotes

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: April 22, 1909 - December 30, 2012

Topics

ProcessComplexCannotPrizesNobel

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.

Simon Travaglia

TimeBookRestYouFindSaid

I think one third of my work is with first-time directors because I think I should, you know? Really, the difference between a first-time director and a second- or third-time director - I mean there's no director who makes enough movies anyway - but if they're talented, they have it. And there is no movie that is perfect.

Rutger Hauer

WorkThinkEnoughYouPerfectKnow

The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network.

Michel Foucault

BookStopBeyondNeverFirstWithin

I hate heights, that's the most terrifying thing for me.

Jonathan Knight

HateMeHeightsMostTerrifying

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Dorothea Brande

MindWillAlwaysOpenFrontier

I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.

Donald McKay

WordsStepMeWritingStartProcess

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.

Arthur Keith

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The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

Peter DeFazio

MilitaryPermanentInterestMustAny

Acting is therapeutic.

Shemar Moore

ActingTherapeutic

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

Sheri S. Tepper

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Rene Char

WordsToughSpiritGentleActions

It makes me mad to see people in government serving themselves at our expense.

Richard Cordray

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