All Quotes

My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.
‐‐ Greg Graffin

My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America.
‐‐ Susumu Tonegawa

My scientific pursuits have led to many opportunities and responsibilities beyond those of simply doing research. For example, as a beginning graduate student, it never occurred to me that the life of a scientist could involve so much travel, something that I have always loved.
‐‐ H. Robert Horvitz

My scientific qualifications are relatively scant. I like science. I try really hard to educate myself about it, but in the end, if something has to go 'boom,' and it would probably only go 'fwoosh,' I am relatively unconcerned about that, which is a sin, but not, I think, a grave one.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.
‐‐ Gregor Mendel

My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
‐‐ Pardis Sabeti

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.
‐‐ Johann Lamont

My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.
‐‐ Eric San

My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
‐‐ Dan Gilroy

My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.'
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.
‐‐ Gloria Swanson

My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
‐‐ Florentijn Hofman

My search for ways to improve my touch has never ended. We players tried a lot of different things and compared notes. Little fads would set in.
‐‐ Arnold Palmer

My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.
‐‐ Chris Abani

My season 2 'Good Wife' wrap gift was this deluxe package of Mortal Kombat. I played it for, like, two weeks straight.
‐‐ Matt Czuchry

My second 30 is actually very good, where my turnovers are very quick. I just want to put a complete race together, once I get out of my drive phase, I want to hit my next 30 very hard.
‐‐ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.
‐‐ Kate Voegele

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.
‐‐ Shelby Foote

My second business would have succeeded but for competitors' jealousy. I was selling motorbike gear cheap, but the people I was undercutting complained to the manufacturer and cut off my supply. It showed me how corrupt business can be. When I sold phones, the same thing happened, but this time I was ready.
‐‐ John Caudwell

My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else.
‐‐ Nora Ephron

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.
‐‐ Miles Teller

My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my 'coming out of the closet' moment.
‐‐ Sue Townsend

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
‐‐ Paddy Ashdown

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.
‐‐ Mercedes McCambridge

My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster.
‐‐ Ian McShane

My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my son walk into kindergarten at a school in which he was the only Jewish child out of 600 students - and this in the middle of the Bible Belt.
‐‐ Karen Bender

My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I've been describing it as 'an astrological murder mystery.'
‐‐ Eleanor Catton

My second or third year in the engineering department, I got very frustrated, and I sat down with myself and had a soul-searching conversation with myself and said, 'What I'd really like to do is see if I can write comedy.' ... I moved to L.A. stone cold. Didn't know anybody; didn't know how to go about it. Really started from scratch.
‐‐ Garry Shandling

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
‐‐ Harold Pinter

My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.
‐‐ Jewel

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar.
‐‐ Duncan Sheik

My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially.
‐‐ John Burnside

My second wife Bonnie Owens and I worked together after we divorced for a period of maybe 20 years. And I managed to stay friends with another wife. And then there's one that I don't mess with. Everybody's got one of those.
‐‐ Merle Haggard

My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky

My second year of college, I started performing comedy at an open mic. It was good to do open mics with the kids. It's a good, safe spot to start, you know?
‐‐ Hannibal Buress

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.
‐‐ Compay Segundo

My secret agenda is to convey my values to my kids.
‐‐ Robert Fulghum

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.
‐‐ Ravi Shankar

My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
‐‐ Gaspard Ulliel

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
‐‐ Laurie Anderson

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.
‐‐ Al Lewis

My secret has always been to be true to myself.
‐‐ Chiara Ferragni

My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!
‐‐ J. D. Souther

My secret indulgent food is dessert. I have an incredible sweet tooth - chocolate pudding with vanilla ice-cream or trifle and pavlova. I do love dessert.
‐‐ Deborra-Lee Furness

My secret is one the world needs to know - nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water.
‐‐ Bella Thorne

My secret is simple. I have a very short attention span, and writing lots of things fast appeases that very attention span.
‐‐ Shiloh Walker

My secret passion is motorbikes. I want a Kawasaki Ninja.
‐‐ Petra Nemcova