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William Standish Knowles Quotes

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

William Standish Knowles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 1, 1917

Topics

Strong Chemistry Harvard Math Toward

As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

Big User Libraries Sustain Public

I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently.

Life God Years Away Whole Until

When I was a boy living in Edinburgh in Scotland, especially in December, when the hours of daylight were few, and it was cold, and often wet, I used to dream of escaping to a tropical magic kingdom.

Cold Magic Dream Living Boy Wet

You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.

Great Forward Thought You Look Play

Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.

Time First Time First Everything

There's no 'Chutes and Ladders' in life.

I've always loved kids, but to have your own little munchkins is unlike anything else. It's the greatest form of love; it's challenging and scary, but so rewarding and exciting.

Love Loved Scary Always Anything

In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't say which is more physical.

Football Rest Hockey Week You Play

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

Yourself You Will Try Listen Out

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

Robert Falcon Scott

Journey Great Past Death Writing

I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering what's nice about the physicality of them.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Think Nice Now Two Remembering Move

My political consultant said I'm the only client of his that he does not worry about.

Political Worry Said Consultant Only

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