Abraham Pais Quotes

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

Abraham Pais

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: May 19, 1918 - August 4, 2000

Topics

WarYouRulesKnowWillNeed

The Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway, and it is not helpful for any nation to suggest that it would attempt to restrict traffic through the strait.

John C. Stennis

TrafficNationThroughHelpfulWould

People think I'm girlish and flippant, but I was an honours student. I was voted Girl Most Likely To Succeed at North Mesquite High in Texas. My best subject was science. I won a scholarship.

Jerry Hall

GirlScienceBestPeopleSucceed

I've seen John Wayne's 'True Grit' about 10 times.

John Glenn

GritTrueSeenAboutJohnTimes

The whole idea of having a free trade area when you have gyrating exchange rates doesn't make sense at all. It just spoils the effect of any kind of free trade agreement.

Robert Mundell

FreeYouKindFree TradeTradeJust

Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry.

Stephen Hough

AngryPeopleSufferingMusiciansGo

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

Robert Browning

SleepFightCloudsForwardBetter

If you're not enjoying your work, what's the point?

Mike Colter

WorkYouPointYourEnjoying

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

Lisa Leslie

BasketballGameThinkLookPlayWhy

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

Joseph Barbera

DreamsMeMoreOrderGoingDreaming

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.

Jon Ronson

ThinkFactsFeelYouJournalismGet

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

Deborah Moggach

TogetherLivingSightLuckyShut Up

Sometimes people are like, 'Hey, you played Dean Thomas!' and I'm like, 'Wow, you actually know!' It kind of shocks me because when I think about movies I love, and if I saw someone who essentially did what I did in Harry Potter, I probably wouldn't recognize them walking down the street.

Alfred Enoch

LovePeopleMeThinkWalkingYou

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