Quotes of: Max Keyword

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

David Harvey

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

Ellsworth Huntington

I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.

Zahi Hawass

Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

Martha Beck

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

Magnus Carlsen

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

Martha Beck

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

Martha Beck

I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.

Nicholas A. Christakis

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

Ernest Lawrence

I'm kind of ADD in that sense where if I start liking something, I'll just learn it to the absolute max.

Jason Momoa

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

John Shelton Reed

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.

Jonathan Shapiro

Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit.

Jonathan Shapiro

[from trailer] Max Vandenburg: Words are life, Liesel. All those pages, they're for you to fill.

The Book Thief

Max Vandenburg: "Don't ever apologize to me. It should be me who apologizes to you."

The Book Thief

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

Clifford Geertz

Vincent: Of all the cabbies in L.A. I get Max, Sigmund Freud meets Dr. Ruth.

Collateral

Max: Oh you can get off the ship alright, but the ocean?

The Legend of 1900

Young Mary: [about Len Hislop] He's scared of outside, which is a disease called homophobia.

Mary and Max

Max Mercy: You read my mind. Roy Hobbs: That takes all of three seconds.

The Natural

Miracle Max: [Lifts and drops the arm of the dead Westley] I've seen worse.

The Princess Bride