Charles Cumming Quotes

As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.

Charles Cumming

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: April 5, 1971

Topics

LifeComplicatedGetMakeOlder

An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.

Joe Wright

LiveArtistCreateSufferMeans

It's not who's the best - it's who can take the most pain.

Steve Prefontaine

BestPainTakeWhoMost

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.

Trofim Lysenko

NatureKnowledgeSciencePractice

When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.

Shinya Yamanaka

ResearchSmallThoughtWayKeepSaw

I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.

Tracey Ullman

MePerceptionThinkingAmericanGot

What is so good about 'Gavin and Stacey' is that it is very real, Welsh, and well written.

Ronnie Corbett

GoodRealWellWelshVeryAbout

Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.

Mason Cooley

TalentYouBeingIrritatingYour

Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science rather than a can't-afford-it attitude.

Martin Rees

AttitudeScienceUnderestimateGlobal

For a child, reading a book can be such an intense experience.

Michelle Paver

ExperienceChildBookReading

For a rapper as well-known as Drake, there remains an essential element of mystery about him. For one so open, there's a distance, and he prefers it that way. But then there's something beneath the exterior that reveals itself with urgency in conversation: Drake's raw ambition.

Michael Paterniti

AmbitionMysteryConversationUrgency

I was born and raised in China, and my parents were missionaries.

Jayne Meadows

ParentsBornChinaI Was BornRaised

If strong economic conditions can partially reverse supply-side damage after it has occurred, then policymakers may want to aim at being more accommodative during recoveries than would be called for under the traditional view that supply is largely independent of demand.

Janet Yellen

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