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Sam Kean Quotes

As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.

Sam Kean

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

Topics

Food Child Fly Mouth Early Talk

You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.

Joe Bastianich

Wine Enjoy You Bottle Much

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

Matt Drudge

Good Step First Step First Reporting

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

Michael D. Barnes

Beginning Fight Safety Gun Over Our

I have never hid my spiritual roots. They just weren't something that came under the spotlight.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Spiritual Roots Never Spotlight Just

I didn't start writing music until I was a sophomore in college. I would steal my roommate's guitar and sit on the front porch and kind of blend this weird spoken word and these little melodies over simple chords; that really started my whole journey as a musician.

Mat Kearney

Music Journey Simple College Start

Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.

Mary Beard

Back Go Clever Military Same Idea

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.

Dolly Parton

Heart People Look Want Why Jokes

I went to Elon University and studied musical theater. I usually did two musicals a year, but I also did a couple of plays. That was sort of always where I felt the most relaxation.

Chris Wood

Year Two Always University Where

I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

Bruce Sterling

Complex Entertainer

My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.

Bryan Callen

Men View Point Of View Animals Okay

Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into them as a young reader. I think they must have appealed not just to my romantic adolescent soul, but I suppose there's also an appealing darkness in both of them.

Alice McDermott

Romantic Darkness Soul Think Young

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine.

Alison Lohman

Performance Go Sometimes Want Kind