Edward Witten Quotes

So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.

Edward Witten

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MeYouI CanAskHappenTell

People have their guard down when they're laughing, so they're open to tougher conversations they wouldn't necessarily have. If somebody is guarded while laughing, they're a weirdo.

Jessica Williams

PeopleDownOpenGuardConversations

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

BirdParadiseHandOnlyGraspDoes

I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.

Andrew Stanton

MotherGirlDaughterPowerAloneMe

I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.

Robert Pinsky

LoveMeKindNeverRhythmLine

Everybody has an iPhone; everyone can be a reporter now. Everybody can tell a story from every part of the world. Why places like CNN matter is that it is still important to bring them together, put context around it, and explain it.

Jeff Zucker

TogetherWorldStoryImportantWhy

It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever.

John Updike

LoveGoodDailyExpectationsReward

It's more responsibility for star kids. Instead of having things easy, expectation is higher. They are compared to their parents, and that's unfair.

Sridevi

ResponsibilityParentsEasyUnfair

D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.

Robin Wright

HollywoodMoreCorruptThanReally

I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

Mary-Louise Parker

MyselfMeMoviesSeeDisappointed

The hardest one, the thing that made the greatest demand on me, was The Mamas & the Papas.

Michelle Phillips

MeGreatestHardestDemandMade

I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different.

Jean Alesi

HomeI AmCalmProfessionalCircuit

What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.

Chris Wedge

WorkAgeIceCandyInsideCenter

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