It was okay but then I found myself in that position of being merely a screenwriter. And you are merely the screenwriter, and there’s no way around it. You don’t have the same clout as the director. James Ivory Read Quote
Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position. Steve Wozniak Read Quote
It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no. Dick Gregory Read Quote
I don’t see myself as a father figure but as someone who the younger players can come to and talk to about cricket. Not just batting but cricket in general and I am ready to impart with any information or advice I have. Brian Lara Read Quote
Most of these experiments required the reduction of the cosmic ray muon flux in order to be successful, and the group necessarily became expert in the operation of deep underground laboratories. Frederick Reines Read Quote
I think I may be the most well-adjusted person you’d ever meet who thinks constantly about falling out of her life. And my life is pretty great! It’s not like I don’t know that. Alexandra Kleeman Read Quote
You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we’ve had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops. Carlos Slim Read Quote
I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult. Liberty Hyde Bailey Read Quote
I decided that since I was trying to teach ‘style’ of thinking in science and engineering, and ‘style’ is an art, I should therefore copy the methods of teaching used for the other arts – once the fundamentals have been learned. Hilary Mason Read Quote
When I go skiing, I may carry a phone, but it’s there for safety purposes. I’m not one of these guys that reads his email while he’s riding up on the chair lift. Martin Cooper Read Quote
