Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Hunt

I am interested in how cells know what they are and how they should behave in their proper place in the body.

Terence Lewis

By being an actor, one can explore various personalities of a human being, be that person, behave and live that person's life, and then you are back to your normal life.

Walter Kirn

A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.

Logan Pearsall Smith

To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

Leila Aboulela

I write fiction that reflects Islamic logic: fictional worlds where cause and effect are governed by Muslim rationale. However, my characters do not necessarily behave as 'good' Muslims; they are not ideals or role models.

Neil Turok

Quantum physics forms the foundation of chemistry, explaining how molecules are held together. It describes how real solids and materials behave and how electricity is conducted through them... It enabled the development of transistors, integrated circuits, lasers, LEDs, digital cameras and all the modern gadgetry that surrounds us.

Jane Smiley

With horses, familiarity breeds comfort. If you haven't been around horses for a while (or ever), the best thing to do is to go to the racetrack, a horse show, a rodeo, or some other horsey activity, and watch the horses. Familiarize yourself with the way they move and behave themselves.

Eric S. Raymond

Does Facebook behave like a tool in my hand, or a firehose designed to spew at me in accordance with other peoples' agendas? Concretely: can I write my own client to present a filtered view of the Facebook stream, or have other people do that for me?

James Howard Kunstler

The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.

Hans Frank

The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events.

Sonu Nigam

My son is an inspired child, a very positive and happy child. The year he was born, he travelled 13 countries with us. I still remember he was so well behaved that the flight attendants used to thank him!

Julianne Moore

My mom worked as a psychiatric social worker. She was interested in people, and I guess I am, too. So we would talk about the people that we knew, and why they behaved the way they did.

It is a substantial part of the market and it is going to behave in a manner similar to the rest of the market because it's such a big component.

Richard Branson

I think it's very important that the competition authorities listen to the slightly smaller companies (and) try to create a level playing field so that the consumer gets the benefit of choice and gets the benefit of competition. ? I wish Pepsi well in that and I hope that Pepsi will not behave in the same way when we come knocking on the doors of some of the big retailers that they are in.

I think that's why this thing is getting attention. It doesn't behave the way people think it should; it ruins files. That's the kind of thing that usually scares people.

I am extremely proud of my students. They made me feel proud to work in Incline. They worked hard in class and were incredibly well behaved on the trip down and back.

Angeles Mastretta

I believe that there is an important part of every human being that is defined in terms of their significant other: how we choose our partner, and how we behave when we are with them. And that is the part that interests me. How that part of the personality is forged doesn't just interest me, it fascinates me.

Viktor Yushchenko

There is an anecdote. It does not really matter whether a man has a daughter or does not have a daughter. It is enough to say in public that his daughter does not behave herself well.

Shakira

My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.

William Galston

If the economy behaves on the upside of the range and things go better than expected in Iraq, then Republicans have a fighting chance to limit their losses. If not, it's going to be a long, grim fall for the Republican Party.

Richard P. Feynman

Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen.

Marco Brambilla

I'm very obsessed with the energy of New York and the idea of the way people behave in the city versus the way they behave in a natural environment.

Albert Schweitzer

Man is a clever aninmal who behaves like an imbecile.

My daughter is a very girly girl and this is the kind of thing she'd like to do anyways. Now I feel much more confident when I send her to a friend's house -- I don't have to worry whether she's going to behave or not. Reinforcing her manners from a third party really made an impact on her.

Sean Maguire

One of my earliest memories is my father telling me to behave because I'm about to meet and work with the greatest actor of all time. Then this old guy comes out and I was like, 'Pfff, he doesn't look anything like Luke Skywalker, I don't know what my dad is trying to tell me here.'

Letitia Baldrige

Mom and Dad never told them, ... Nobody ever taught them. And now there are so many young people who've not been taught by their parents, who didn't know anyway. Their grandparents may have known how to behave in the theater. But now we've got two generations down who haven't a clue!

Learning how to behave properly in public is a good skill for business people and students to understand.

Jonathan Mostow

When I made 'Terminator 3,' I learned something about directing actors to behave like robots. And one of the key things I learned is that if an actor tries to play a robot, he or she risks playing it mechanically in a way that makes the performance uninteresting.

When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.

Trinny Woodall

When you're with a big TV channel, there's a sense of having to behave in a certain way in order to get audience figures.

Justin Trudeau

Open nominations means it is local Liberals who choose who gets to be their representative. But what that doesn't mean is that somebody can behave any which way and bully other people out of the nomination and then be the last person standing.

There are a lot of people who think insurance is all-powerful, and that if we do something, then suddenly people will behave a certain way. Would that were true -- we'd have no drunk drivers or speeders.

Deepika Padukone

My character in 'Cocktail' was different from my personality. Homi Adajania took me to London, showed me how girls dress and behave there. I had not seen that kind of lifestyle before.