All Quotes

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

The pro-American policy is the one that forces oil prices down. The way to do this is to flood the world market with liquid fuel from every source possible.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.
‐‐ Fran Tarkenton

The pro-E.U. campaign is all too likely to be based on a fear of the unknown because in most people's lifetime, we have never been out of the E.U.
‐‐ Nigel Lawson

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
‐‐ Zach Wamp

The pro-growth policies of Congress have helped created new jobs in the region and across the country.
‐‐ Tim Murphy

The pro-immigration people are really having a fit saying that I don't care about the children.
‐‐ Blake Farenthold

The pro skaters I know are responsible members of society. Many of them are fathers, homeowners, world travelers and successful entrepreneurs. Their hairdos and tattoos are simply part of our culture, even when they raise eyebrows during PTA meetings.
‐‐ Tony Hawk

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.
‐‐ John Sladek

The problem and the question on 'Breaking Bad' is always 'Where is Walt's head at?'
‐‐ Peter Gould

The problem, as a female athlete, is that you don't want to come across as negative and moaning.
‐‐ Lizzie Armitstead

The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, 'Wait, I think I've written that before.'
‐‐ Robert Smith

The problem as you get older... is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There's no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.
‐‐ Seamus Heaney

The problem became this: We became a caricature of ourselves. We were after light, and it began to look as though we were after heat, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story.
‐‐ Mike Wallace

The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.
‐‐ Damon Hill

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.
‐‐ Eric Kandel

The problem for many people with disabilities is not that we are not able to work a certain number of hours a week. It's that no-one will let us.
‐‐ Stella Young

The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.
‐‐ Graeme Le Saux

The problem for me is that 'Watchmen,' one of the great comics of all time, is a look at superheroes that has gone beyond the concept of or necessity for superheroes.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
‐‐ Pete Townshend

The problem for me was, I lived my childhood in my 20s. You should really try to live your childhood when you're a child, because if you do it when you're 26, it can be dangerous.
‐‐ Mike Lookinland

The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.
‐‐ Peter Davison

The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.
‐‐ Godfried Danneels

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.
‐‐ Bo Burnham

The problem, gentlemen, is that Obama is right: The promise of upward mobility is dying in America, and no amount of political demagoguery will fix it.
‐‐ Ron Fournier

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.
‐‐ Condoleezza Rice

The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated.
‐‐ Peter Malkin

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.
‐‐ Simon Travaglia

The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this.
‐‐ Rick Baker

The problem in a lot of low-income countries is that people take out loans to go and get degrees, which are then irrelevant in the job market.
‐‐ Leila Janah

The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen.
‐‐ Denis Villeneuve

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life.
‐‐ Bernardo Bertolucci

The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning with photography and telegraphy and the - in the 1840s. We tried to solve the problem of overcoming the limitations of space, time, and form.
‐‐ Neil Postman

The problem is, and I'm just as guilty of this, a lot of people see their follower count increase and mistake that for friendships. It's great to have followers, especially if you want to sell albums, promote shows, or promote your friends, but you still need to get outside and talk to other human beings.
‐‐ Patton Oswalt

The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not.
‐‐ Anna Quindlen

The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order.
‐‐ John Desmond Bernal

The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
‐‐ Vanessa Diffenbaugh

The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.
‐‐ Clare Short

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.
‐‐ Grover Norquist

The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.
‐‐ Alton Brown

The problem is, I don't think I've got too much to offer at the minute. I'm busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it's like, you've got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl.
‐‐ Robbie Williams

The problem is I'm a perfectionist, so the producer might say he's happy with my vocal take but I'll say, 'No, it can be better.' I'll do it again and again until I feel I've got the truth out of a song.
‐‐ Nicole Scherzinger