#we

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#before #died #father #homestead #i

On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#before #came #down #married #me

Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another. ↗

— John Hawkes

#certainly #experience #finding #had #i

I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do. ↗

— John Hawkes

#crucible #guthrie #high #high school #i

I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement. ↗

— John Hawkes

#academy award #amazing #announcement #attachment #award

Some friends of mine bothered me for a long time about getting on the social networking pages. They were close friends that I liked to mess with, and I think that I kind of enjoyed for a while that it bothered them so much. Now they've just kind of given up. ↗

— John Hawkes

#bothered #close #close friends #enjoyed #friends

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#danger #destroying #greed #increasingly #inwards

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#life #tragic #weren #would

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#horrible #human #human race #like #nuclear

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#bang #big #big bang #cooking #good