quotes about Socs

“To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.”

“I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.”

“To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.”

“Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”

“Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined operation left a lingering, individual spell. I naturally went to Hyde Park to hear the orators, the best of the many free entertainments on offer in the capital. I heard the purest milk of the world flowing, then as now, from the platform of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.”

“In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoretical calculations, and solid numbers based on measurement, is paramount. All the committees, the politicking and the plans would have come to naught if a few unpredictable nuclear cross sections had been different from what they are by a factor of two.”

Source : Epigraph by Emilio G. Segre in Richard Rhodes' book "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" (p. 8), 1986.

“If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him.”

“Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice,”

“I don't like working out with lots of makeup because I don't like it getting into my pores.”

“If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good music and having fun. That 'sex symbol' thing is typically part of being in the limelight. You better be very talented in your music, but it's good to be nice to look at, I guess.”