Lewis Thomas Quotes

Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self.

Lewis Thomas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 25, 1913 - December 3, 1993

Topics

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I might not be Shaq, but I can be Kobe, you know?

Jerry Only

YouI CanKnowMightKobe

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Robert Scheer

MoneyPeopleFreeMediaHideTalk

The problem with interest rates are that you are not modeling a single number, you are modeling a whole term structure, so it is a sort of different type of problem.

John Hull

ProblemYouModelingStructureWhole

That's my job as an actor - to go on and try to do the work so subtle and so fine and specific that the memories will linger for a long time.

Ron Cephas Jones

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I was invited to a couple of races, but I was doing a play in New York.

Josh Brolin

New YorkDoingPlayNewInvited

I'm on time even when I try not to be.

Diane Kruger

TimeTryEven

If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which, for me, is once every two and a half to three months, which is when I'll get really and truly inspired about something.

Christopher Paolini

BlueMeMoonYouProfessionalThree

To win a successful campaign against an opponent that has a lot more name recognition and a lot more money, I have to be edgy.

Corey Stewart

MoneyWinNameRecognitionEdgy

All of us can agree that we want government to work as well as possible, and we should all applaud efforts to improve it. But there is no escaping the divisive and essential questions: What is the purpose of the state, and whom does it serve?

Chrystia Freeland

WorkPurposeGovernmentQuestions

Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won't grow any faster than the rate of inflation.

Suze Orman

GrowStock MarketInvestmentMean

I felt so much pressure to come out on other people's terms, you know? I should have come out.

Sean Hayes

PeoplePressureYouKnowOutCome

I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents.

Rick Riordan

ChildhoodParentsWritingThinkYou

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