#laureate

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#dreams #human-nature #inspirational-quotes #john-galsworthy #nobel-laureate

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#center #even #eventually #famous #front

Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the evening nesting in a tree. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#been #being #between #birds #came

Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children. ↗

— John Pople

#children #i #immeasurably #laureates #like

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge. ↗

— John Pople

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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#laureate #many #nobel #obligation #peace

Poets sing our human music for us. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#poet-laureate #poetry #poets #song #music

I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about! ↗

— Rita Dove

#appointed #because #been #begun #blue

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. ↗

— Rita Dove

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It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields. ↗

— David Douglass

#deserved #disappointing #embarrassing #experts #fields