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Ahmed Zewail Quotes

I think I succeeded in getting the Egyptian people excited about the importance of science, and this is the only way Egypt can get out of this dark ages.

Ahmed Zewail

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: egyptian
Birth: February 26, 1946 - August 2, 2016

Topics

Science People Think Dark Egypt Way

I grew up in the north of England - 200 miles north of London, in a relatively unsophisticated place. And I craved magazines as a way of finding out about the future, about the life that I wanted.

Joanna Coles

Life Future Finding Place Way Out

The nature of the lost-wax process is that there is no original in the popular sense.

Robert Graham

Nature Process Original Sense

As a prosecutor and a senator, one of my main criminal justice priorities has been enforcing and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, a bill with deep roots in Minnesota, seeds planted by former Senator Paul Wellstone and his wife Sheila.

Amy Klobuchar

Women Justice Wife Roots Seeds Deep

I suppose we are what we are, and we use the evidence to confirm what we believe.

Stewart Lee

Believe Evidence Confirm Use Suppose

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Tom Wolfe

Past Think Present Acting Know Just

On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

Robert Wyatt

Listen Peers Whole Tend

There are always interests that are furthered by war. Therefore, those who have power and influence can also stop them... we should not accept any excuses from those in power.

Martti Ahtisaari

Power War Influence Excuses Stop

I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.

Joseph Brodsky

Three Twice Been Imprisoned Had

People ask me in Europe, when they do interviews... they ask me, 'Well, how does it feel to be a cook in a country that doesn't know how to eat?' It always touches a nerve, because Europe and the world think that America is no more than bad hot dogs and bad burgers.

Jose Andres

People Me World Think Feel America

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

Diane Keaton

Mother Dreams Great Partner She Had

As I look at the barn in my ninth decade, I see the no-smoking sign, rusted and tilting on the unpainted gray clapboard. My grandfather, born in 1875, milked his cattle there a century ago.

Donald Hall

Look Born Grandfather Gray See Barn

The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Day Think CEO I Think Dropped Stock