Paul Dirac Quotes

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Paul Dirac

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: physicist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: August 8, 1902 - October 20, 1984

Topics

SciencePoetryPeopleWayTellKnew

If I'm in a hurry, I will have the South Beach Ricotta Muffins. Some mornings, I'll just have turkey bacon and scrambled eggs.

Jessie James Decker

BeachWillEggsBaconHurryJust

I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel.

John Updike

MeWritingLimitsFeelFindKnow

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Ambrose Bierce

MenBelieveDoubtBecomeWillingness

If I'm going to be the best in what I do, I have to study what I'm doing, I have to see what I'm doing. I have to see it, I have to hear it. I'm just starting to appreciate myself - not starting, but appreciating myself in a way where I can look at myself back in a movie or listen to myself as much as I do now.

Mary J. Blige

MyselfBestAppreciateDoingLook

I didn't sing, but I did play the drums.

Miguel Ferrer

PlaySingDrumsDid

One of the best things that can happen to any cause, to any people, is to have Bill Clinton as its advocate. That is how needy and neglected causes have become global initiatives.

Mitt Romney

BestPeopleBecomeHappenAdvocate

I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'

Moby

PeopleMeBelieveStandAttention

I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as a teenager.

Lucy Punch

ChildhoodSchoolYouthTheatreCozy

When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.

Don Cornelius

WorkPatienceTimeJobPeopleLose

Don't ask super goofy questions at the premiere of a very serious movie or try to have an in-depth political discussion at the opening of a new fashion boutique.

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

FashionPoliticalQuestionsNewTry

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Alfred North Whitehead

TimeWordsSpeakWillOutDeeds

I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.

Sebastian Faulks

FriendshipDeathThinkKindWayOwn

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