Willard Boyle Quotes

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

Willard Boyle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: physicist
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: August 19, 1924 - May 7, 2011

Topics

MotherHomeSchoolMeInteresting

I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

John Burdett

MoneyThinkAmericanWinnerParis

When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan's San Siro stadium and remember thinking how unbelievable it was. From then onwards I vowed that one day I would be playing there - and I am very proud that I achieved this and also for everything else I have managed to achieve in football.

Andriy Shevchenko

DayFootballI AmChildProudDream

Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.

John Olver

PresidentDestructionViceFound

We need to move off the planet. And Mars is the next best place.

John M. Grunsfeld

BestPlaceNeedMarsNextPlanet

In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

Alvin Dark

LiveBaseballGameDieRememberYou

I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

Amanda Donohoe

LoveGardeningPeopleThinkHands

I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.

Rupert Grint

WorkCoolSometimesGetTried

A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I was a little kid, and for the majority of that time, I wasn't paid for it. So I will always be making it.

Mike Posner

MusicTimePeopleArtistCareerKid

I was very into swimming, but I was never into contact sports. I think it was because I knew I wasn't going to get damaged.

Jonathan Anderson

SportsSwimmingThinkNeverContact

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.

Dick Francis

LifeIgnoreYouCrimeWayLaws

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task.

Dmitry Medvedev

SayAlwaysTaskAbstractSpecific

I used the so-called Laffer Curve all the time in my classes and with anyone else who would listen to me to illustrate the trade-off between tax rates and tax revenues.

Arthur Laffer

TimeMeTaxListenUsedCurve

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