Blackett V Quotes & Sayings

You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only. — Anne Frank

May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. — Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child. — Alia Shawkat

In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference? — Paul Allen

He had felt safe with what he had confided. It had been the same with Queenie. You could say things in the car and know she had tucked them somewhere safe among her thoughts, and that she would not judge him for them, or hold it against him in years to come. He supposed that was what friendship was, and regretted all the years he had spent without it. — Rachel Joyce

Farther I could find it in my heart to wish that you had been at the head of a hundred thousand Israelites ... & marching with them into Judea & making a conquest of that country & restoring your nation to the dominion of it. For I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation. — John Adams

It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females. — Lewis Thomas

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work. — P.M.S. Blackett

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In heaven, believers in Jesus Christ will never cry again. In hell, unbelievers will never stop crying. What more motivation do we need to share Christ with the lost? — Brian Williams

We really try to have only one new particle per paper. — Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

With Godzilla, I've been a huge fan my whole life. — Thomas Tull

I saw William Blackett's escaping sail already far from land, and Captain Littlepage was sitting behind his closed window as I passed by, watching for some one who never came. I tried to speak to him, but he did not see me. There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship. — Sarah Orne Jewett

The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the world of science and invention to a wide degree. Also, there were no "professionals". This was a time when amateur explorers, naturalists and enthusiasts were are still making major contributions to progress. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I have the right to be hated.(Takumi) — Ai Yazawa

My roommate knocks on my door and I try not to move.
My heart is beating fast.
He knocks again and then leaves.
I win.
This is but one of the many victories I have exampled as a human among humans.
I have no equals.
My strength is unmatched. — Sam Pink

The exit from agony is always there. The tunnel out of the agony sector is always in front of you and yet you don't take it. You don't take it by choice. You want to indulge a lot and be in pain. The easiest way out is to write a list of what you're grateful for. If everybody literally did that before they went to bed at night, there'd be no unhappy people. — Jim Carrey