Quotes of: Von Keyword

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

Barbara Kruger

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

Robert Andrews Millikan

Simultaneous recording with superimposed ionization chambers and Wilson chambers, ionization chambers and sets of counting tubes, has not yet been carried out.

Victor Francis Hess

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

Walter Annenberg

I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.

Walter Annenberg

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

Walter Annenberg

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Walter Annenberg

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.

William Booth

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them

William Lawrence Bragg

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

William Ellery Channing

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

Walter Gilbert

There's lots of fun in this world, after all. And if there isn't, there is in the next. And we're going there, sure.

William Morris Hunt

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

Walter Kohn

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

Walter Rauschenbusch

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: "I don’t bother you - don’t bother me".

Yohji Yamamoto

My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes.

Yohji Yamamoto

It's most beautiful thing about my work. I have reached people who I would never have known without my work.

Ann Demeulemeester

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

Alberto Giacometti

The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will greatly simplify my task and provide me with much valuable help in my work.

August Krogh