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Peter Higgs Quotes

I'm rather cynical about the way the honours system is used, frankly. A whole lot of the honours system is used for political purposes by the government in power.

Peter Higgs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: british
Birth: May 29, 1929

Topics

Power Government Political Way Used

Literature is such a profound and deep way to look into someone else's life, his mind, his hopes and thoughts. Books have opened so many doors for me, taking me to places where my normal life and its finite limits could never have.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Life Mind Me Thoughts Limits Deep

I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay.

John Boyne

Gay Irish Write Buy Being Ireland

As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

Meg Rosoff

Repetition Person Software Dislike

If you believe that people are basically good, and you remove obstacles, then they'll do the right thing by each other.

Jeffrey Skoll

Good Do The Right Thing People You

The honor of being able to play Maura is transformative. I'm 70 years old. I should be in a reading room, reading Dickens or something.

Jeffrey Tambor

Reading Honor Play Old Years Room

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

Mike White

Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we're eating is one of the leading causes of climate change. It's as important as the kind of car you drive - whether you eat meat a lot or how much meat you eat.

Michael Pollan

Change Car Environmental Drive You

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.

Christopher Alexander

Nature World Isolation View You

My unhealthiest habit is that I like eating white bread and butter. I don't know why, I just ate it as a kid. It's weird but I love it. My healthiest? I make a really good quinoa, chickpea and tahini lemon dressing salad, or I make a really bomb green smoothie.

Courtney Eaton

Love Good Habit Green Eating Weird

When I was little, I was such a tomboy - I loved a baggy T-shirt and leggings.

Alice Dellal

Loved T-Shirt Little Tomboy Baggy

We come to beginnings only at the end.

William Throsby Bridges

End Beginnings Come Only

Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion.

Susan Vreeland

Life Love Time Art Myself World