The prize was really for the molecule. In 1962, Osamu Shimomura discovered a protein in a jellyfish that caused it to glow bright green. With colleagues, 30 years later, I was able to insert this G.F.P. gene into bacteria and make them turn green.
Martin Chalfie
GreenColleaguesGlowBrightTurn
I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists.
Lennart Nilsson
Working TogetherTogetherColleagues
In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing seem to me pretty insufferable. I try not to be that guy.
Ken Liu
MeWritingColleaguesTryTalkOwn
Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students.
James Tobin
ColleaguesI Have LearnedImportant
My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.
Gregory Maguire
WorkJobNew YorkColleaguesIce
Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service.
Jerry Costello
WorkServiceColleaguesImportant
I write to be read. I'm quite direct about that. I'm not writing to thrill colleagues or to impress the professors at the University of Iowa; that's not my goal.
Erik Larson
WritingColleaguesGoalImpressIowa
I do remember when I first went into politics, one of my competitors asked me, 'Well, Jenny Shipley, who's looking after your children?' I don't think many of my male colleagues have faced a similar question.
Jenny Shipley
ChildrenPoliticsMeColleaguesWell
In Congress, I have worked with my colleagues to pass the 21st Century Cures Act.
Elise Stefanik
ColleaguesCongressActPassCentury
As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.
Melissa Bean
FightIdentityColleaguesFinancial
Through space-based climate studies, my colleagues and I have learned that a stable and comfortable climate is not something to take for granted.
David Grinspoon
ColleaguesTake For GrantedSomething
I was jealous of colleagues when I should have been happy for them. I decided to save my energy. If you think they are great works, you should buy them.
Maurizio Cattelan
GreatHappyColleaguesEnergyThink
My colleagues and I were always having the same conversation in the teachers lunchroom about books we wanted our students to read, a field trip we knew would really bring a subject matter to life... And most of us would go into our own pockets to buy just paper and pencils.
Charles Best
LifeColleaguesConversationGoOwn
At one point, I got to work as an assistant for Martin Scorsese: He wanted to know about all the films coming out, so I would make clippings and put it all in a big scrapbook for him. I was also in charge of his video library - it was like a little video store, and his friends and colleagues would come and borrow films.
Michael Imperioli
WorkColleaguesLibraryFriendsKnow
I don't know that my colleagues in Congress really care about what happens here in El Paso and in Juarez. They care what happens in their home district.
Beto O'Rourke
HomeColleaguesCareCongressKnow
I think the intellectual consistency of Christianity in historical evidence is frankly overwhelming, but my materialist colleagues regard me as a slightly sad case.
Simon Conway Morris
SadMeConsistencyColleaguesThink
I resolve to work with my colleagues to succeed in producing the good rather than failing to produce the perfect.
Thom Tillis
WorkGoodSucceedColleaguesPerfect
I've seen so many people - loved ones and colleagues - who jump from one diet to the next, one exercise regimen to the next . I was trying to figure out what were some of the basic things that each of us can build into a lifestyle for good, instead of bouncing from one thing to the next.
Tom Rath
GoodPeopleColleaguesLovedDiet
Throughout my decade on the bench, I have watched my colleagues strive day in and day out to do just as Socrates said we should - to hear courteously, answer wisely, consider soberly, and decide impartially.
Neil Gorsuch
DayColleaguesSaidStriveBench
Next week we'll be investigating rumours that the president of the dairy council has become a Mason, and goes around giving his colleagues the 'secret milkshake.'
Ronnie Barker
ColleaguesGivingWeekBecomeSecret
Starting in 2005, my first session in the legislature, my colleagues elected me to be Democratic whip.
Marc Veasey
MeColleaguesFirstStartingWhip
I live in Indiana and teach at Purdue University, a wonderful school with some of the brightest students I have ever had the privilege of working with. My colleagues are powerful and intelligent and kind. The cost of living is low, the prairie is wide, and on clear nights, I can see all the stars in the sky above.
Roxane Gay
StarsLiveSkySchoolColleagues
Women are often meeker in meetings and afraid to ask for raises and promotions. I've told countless female colleagues to stop apologizing when they ask for more. It's not personal, it's business.
Katharine Weymouth
WomenBusinessColleaguesMeetings
When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.
Mike McCurry
FaithColleaguesHouseWhiteSharing
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