Martin Rees Quotes

The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday consumer items such as the iPhone would have seemed magic back in the 1950s.

Martin Rees

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BestImpactMagicPhysicsBack

My father was just a hell of a guy. He had a real strong sense of honor, and he tried to pass that on to me. I like to think that I embrace that.

Joe R. Lansdale

FatherMeStrongThinkHellHonor

Some guy in Germany has my face tattooed on the back of his calf. That was wild. It was a decent tattoo job, but that's kind of weird for me.

Megan Rapinoe

JobMeFaceWeirdBackKind

'Gut' was my nickname. And I was picked on terribly by many, many kids.

John Schneider

GutKidsManyNicknamePicked

At one point he decided enough was enough.

Steven Wright

EnoughPointHeDecided

I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

Robin Williams

WorkGreatSchoolMeYouActing

Improvisation has to do with exploring something like two brothers in a room together. You find out things about situations by discovering the things that they aren't saying. It's a way to explore scenes. Sometimes it's more useful than others, but it's always there to see if there's anything that you might improve.

Mike Nichols

TogetherSayingYouFindSometimes

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Austin O'Malley

FriendYouBuyMarketThanLonger

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.

Alice Hoffman

DreamsYour DreamsI AmYouYour

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

William Hazlitt

WisdomThinkWishVirtueMankind

When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this.

Susan Estrich

GoodSpeechYouBadHardAudience

I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it. I just do.

Shaun White

MeStartThinkThinkingPressure

We've got a second amendment right. I think some people forget that.

Richard Shelby

PeopleThinkForgetSome PeopleGot

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