Ryoji Quotes & Sayings

My father, Kaneki, was a gifted research director of a chemical company, and his profession strongly influenced the path of my life. — Ryoji Noyori

If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be The Beatles. That would have been a lot of fun. — Jason Behr

I can't say that I have ever been fanatical about a show. To be honest, I'm not a big TV watcher. When I do watch TV, I watch the news. — Matthew Davis

Ryoji: It's either that she doesn't know how to lean on someone or she's simply that selfless. She won't give me a space to worry about her. Beyond that, she'll protect others instinctively. — Bisco Hatori

The fans know their football, you can't kid them. — Richard Gough

Except for a short period at the end of World War II, I attended an elementary school affiliated to Kobe University from ages six to twelve and then moved on to Nada Middle and High School from ages twelve to eighteen. I enjoyed many out-door activities in my youth. — Ryoji Noyori

You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces. — John Kennedy Toole

Enantiomers often smell and taste differently. — Ryoji Noyori

RIKEN has attracted numerous outstanding scientists from inside and outside Japan, and these people have achieved creative and outstanding results. — Ryoji Noyori

For years, maybe most of my life, I had languished in that typical young intellectual's delusion that gloom and despair are the romantic lot of the brilliant and the wise. But now I saw: it wasn't so. Why should it be? What sort of wisdom has no joy in it? What good is wisdom without joy? ... Everything useful that can be done in the world can be done in joy. — Andrew Klavan

I was a mere 29-year-old instructor at Kyoto, enjoying daily research work with some young students. Nothing had prepared me to be a professor at a major national university. Being too young and inexperienced to be a Full Professor, I was first appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry. — Ryoji Noyori

The structural difference between enantiomers can be serious with respect to the actions of synthetic drugs. — Ryoji Noyori

The less you carry the more you will see, the less you spend the more you will experience. — Stephen Graham

There is a great deal more to be got out of things than is generally got out of them, whether the thing be a chapter of the Bible or a yellow turnip, and the marvel is that those who use the most material should so often be those that show the least result in strength or character. — George MacDonald

In 1957, at the age of 18, I entered Kyoto University, which was known to be the most active institution in the research of polymer chemistry. — Ryoji Noyori

The Dragon King's gaze turned to her. Darcy watched him standing in the glow of the streetlight, completely mesmerized by the dragon tat that ran from the King's right shoulder, under his armpit, and down his side to the top of his right thigh.
The dragon's head was at the front of the man's shoulder and had his mouth open as if on a roar. He was rearing with his wings up and out. It was his long tail that stopped at the King's thigh.
The King glistened with sweat that made his muscles gleam in the light. Darcy had the absurd notion to run her hands all over his body, learning the feel of his hard muscles and warm skin. — Donna Grant

Chiral receptor sites in the human body interact only with drug molecules having the proper absolute configuration, resulting in marked differences in the pharmacological activities of enantiomers. — Ryoji Noyori

Molecular chirality plays a key role in science and technology. In particular, life depends on molecular chirality in that many biological functions are inherently dissymmetric. — Ryoji Noyori

Scars are stories, history written on the body — Kathryn Harrison

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously. — Aldous Huxley

I have several friends that have outlasted both of my marriages that are raising wonderful children together that have been together in gay unions for over 25 years. So they're doing a better job than I am! — Vanessa L. Williams

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster. — Henry George

My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's. — Mariah Carey