Hopwood Quotes & Sayings

A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections — Joseph Addison

I'm not extra sensitive to handshakes. I shake hands all the time. — Amy Schumer

The universe looks more and more like a great thought rather than a great machine. — James Hopwood Jeans

[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects. — Allan McLeod Cormack

I haven't done any training. I come from a family of actors, but I haven't done any training. — Eleanor Tomlinson

A computer search would have given me a list of pertinent cases, but without that I had to read everything. That is harder by far, but you end up learning a lot more. I was forced to remember cases because making copies of everything was too expensive. Keeping cases in your head is good, too, because cases are like puzzle pieces floating around in your mind, and sometimes, in moments of creativity, they fall into place and form a picture. If they were words on a screen that you could pull up anytime you wished, that phenomenon wouldn't happen as easily. — Shon Hopwood

If we assume that the last breath of, say, Julius Caesar has by now become thoroughly scattered through the atmosphere, then the chances are that each of us inhales one molecule of it with every breath we take. — James Hopwood Jeans

It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came. — Sarah Dessen

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. — Saint Augustine

There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased. — Marianne Williamson