Elie Metchnikoff Quotes

The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.

Elie Metchnikoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: May 16, 1845 - July 16, 1916

Topics

NatureArtExcellenceHuman Nature

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Stendhal

SheImitateHowAnyHadMarvellous

People like to say that my work is about making the invisible visible, but that's a misunderstanding. It's about showing what invisibility looks like.

Trevor Paglen

WorkPeopleLooksMisunderstanding

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents.

Rod Blagojevich

TodayParentsAheadFarKidsMany

As prime minister, Hariri did not directly confront Hezbollah or the Syrians, but conflict simmered nonetheless.

Ronen Bergman

ConflictPrimeDidConfrontMinister

It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.

Ruth Ozeki

YouWritePaperWholeCostsMuch

I guess that, as a girl from Washington state, I am attracted to a little scruff and men who are able to roll out of bed, throw on a baseball cap, and call it a day.

Mikaela Hoover

GirlDayMenBaseballI AmCap

I've got two kids who are native New Yorkers. It's kind of astonishing, raising two girls who are full-blooded New Yorkers. It's awesome and scary, because they're so much cooler than me.

Miriam Shor

MeNewKindTwoScaryAwesome

I tend to kind of try to use what's in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don't already have.

Mitski

BestEnvironmentKindTryAbility

While cyber espionage is having a tremendous negative affect on the global economy from the theft-caused drain of intellectual property and the resulting adverse incentives for continued investments in innovative growth, the threat from destructive and disruptive attacks is amplifying the risks even further.

Dmitri Alperovitch

GrowthRisksNegativeIntellectual

There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen.

Dianna Agron

ProjectHappenMonthGotGetCast

I don't see myself beneath Beyonce and Jay Z; I don't see myself above them. I'm in my own world, hungry to grow.

Ciara

MyselfWorldGrowMy OwnHungrySee

It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us.

Ariel Sharon

PathTimeControlImpossibleLose

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