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Alfred Nobel Quotes

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

Alfred Nobel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: swedish
Birth: October 21, 1833 - December 10, 1896

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Depression Purpose Poetry Now Write

I play so many weirdos in movies that it's nice to play an attractive woman.

Jennifer Coolidge

Woman Play Nice Movies Attractive

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

Maya Lin

Love Me Puzzle Out Figuring Puzzles

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

Robert Smithson

Work Gardening Past Political Values

Eric Young is an excellent heel. I think Eric Young is a really, really good heel because he does things intentionally so that you don't want to cheer him, you don't want to get behind him, and you don't want to support him.

Matt Hardy

Good Support Think You Young Want

When I retired from Aetna, I became part of the private equity world. It turned out to be a natural fit.

Ron Williams

World Equity Out Natural Fit Part

I will drink alcohol socially. That's really on the weekends.

Romeo Santos

Alcohol Will Drink Weekends Really

That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

Mick Ralphs

Good Hope Song You Find Thirty

I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.

Michael Sandel

Time Me Political Doing Philosophy

Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.

Liza Minnelli

Mind Celebrate Think Plan You Dream

Don't put too many chefs to work. Sometimes they get too involved in the ingredients and are of no help.

Jose Andres

Work Help Sometimes Ingredients Get

We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.

Christopher McDougall

Freedom Youth Will Human Existence

Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their way out and payphones had gone the way of dinosaurs. Because of their native fluency, Millennials recognize mobile phones can do a whole lot more than make calls, enable texting between friends or tweeting.

Chelsea Clinton

Age Cell Phone Friends Phone Way