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James Bryant Conant Quotes

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

James Bryant Conant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 26, 1893 - February 11, 1978

Topics

Life Organization Birth Daring Idea

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.

Work Respect Treat Partnership Gay

What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.

Beauty Beautiful Great Poetry Me

You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.

Jean-Marc Vallee

Trust Quality You Acting Emotion

I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.

Great Feel Go Right Make Situations

I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.

Myself Voice Want Out Her Hear

Since I'm a professional communicator, I think I instinctively cling to doing what I do best, even in times of crisis and turmoil.

Best Think Doing Professional Crisis

Epigenetics doesn't change the genetic code, it changes how that's read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won't be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure.

Change Death Environment Result

I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.

Goals Years Setting Goals England

Harlem's Apollo is probably the most well-known music hall in the world.

Music World Apollo Most Harlem Hall

Patrick Swayze reminded me a lot of Gene Kelly. Patrick had that Everyman quality. Gene made dancing sort of an accessible idea for the regular guy out there.

Quality Me Dancing Out Guy Idea

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

Julian Casablancas

People Think Africa I Think Had

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Henry David Thoreau

Moments Lost Inspiration Impression

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