Rita Levi-Montalcini Quotes

At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FatherMathematicsMedicalSchool

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Jeremy Taylor

GodTimeManShortEarthEternity

I got a call saying that George Lucas wanted to meet me. Of all the phone calls I've received - Oliver Stone wants to meet you; Spike Lee wants to meet you - that was the one call I never in a million years thought was going to happen.

John Ridley

MeSayingThoughtYouStonePhone

I always believe in pants. You can play with your legs, your attitude, with pants. It's much more funny. It's much more sophisticated. It's much more arrogant, like a man with feminine attitude. I love pants.

Sonia Rykiel

FunnyLoveAttitudeManBelieveYou

I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage.

Tony Abbott

LifeMarriageWomanManThinkKnow

We have seen a degradation from the highest levels of authority politically in this nation, including through the department of justice, for the rule of law.

Matt Bevin

JusticeLawRule Of LawAuthority

I used to be more glamorous.

China Chow

MoreGlamorousUsed

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

Colm Toibin

WorkSufferingMeWritingStrongUp

People in the performing arts have a lot of other skills they don't realize they can utilize, and part of what the Actors Fund program is there to do is wake their head up to realize there are other things they can do.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

PeopleSkillsRealizeHeadUpArts

Solving problems is fine, but it has gotten to the point of being a global obsession. We somehow have it in our heads that if we solve all of the problems, we can sit back and enjoy the easy life. But in reality, we become lazy and complacent. And that's when we get flooded with even bigger problems.

Thomas Frey

LifeProblemsRealityEnjoyBack

Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

Nicolas Cage

QualityYouActingWorking HardHard

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

Richard Grant

DoingYouTargetNobodyWellHow

Even if 'going retrograde' or 'moving into Aquarius' were real phenomena, something that planets actually do, what influence could they possibly have on human events? A planet is so far away that its gravitational pull on a new-born baby would be swamped by the gravitational pull of the doctor's paunch.

Richard Dawkins

BabyMovingInfluenceDoctorHuman

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Rita Levi-Montalcini