Oliver Sacks Quotes

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.

Oliver Sacks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 9, 1933 - August 30, 2015

Topics

MeNumbersBirthdaysBeenElements

I'm not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out. It would make me crack.

Jessica Williams

TimeStressMeBlackWalkingOut

Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey.

Mayer Hawthorne

BeachMeInfluenceBeeWhiteRock

It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.

John Howard

StupidCountryBeliefBeyondCarry

It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

HopeYouWallUnderstandLivedWest

The fact that I am able to live a life and act and to do all of those things and support myself and my family is a gift.

Michael Cudlitz

LifeFamilyLiveMyselfSupportAct

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

Steve Case

StrengthPeopleTeamYouDifferent

Darren McCarty is a big video game guy, and he brings his systems with him on the road.

Steve Yzerman

RoadGameHimBigGuyHe

My job is just to make the right play, read the defense, shoot if it's there, and make plays for my team.

Trey Burke

JobTeamPlayRightShootDefense

Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.

Tom Hiddleston

ChildrenPainSpaceEgoConnection

If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

FaithSurviveBelieveFaceThrive

I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left.

Britt Ekland

RightYearsDaysLeftGotFour

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Wole Soyinka

FreedomCriticismGreatestAbsence

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