#late

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard. ↗

— River Phoenix

#control #enough #i #irrational #kids

Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#black holes #capable #cosmology #evolutionary #formulates

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by. ↗

— Alan Coren

#chocolate #clock #cuckoo #give #invented

I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby. ↗

— Gary Numan

#after #airline #any #baby #blood

I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started. ↗

— Gary Numan

#arranged #coming #concerts #crush #dad

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#anybody #anything #doing #humility #into

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#careers #complete #contemplated #drudgery #experiments

I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#feel #home #i #i am #i think

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it! ↗

— Hortense Odlum

#been #bewildered #death #face #face reality

The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.' ↗

— Sandra Oh

#big #boy #brilliant #career #ever