"There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30."

-- Cleveland Amory

#Childhood Quotes #Age Quotes #Three Quotes

“If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.”
“Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments]. Much important information about the target atoms or nuclei or their assemblage has been obtained in this way. In witness of this importance one can point to the unusual concentration of scattering enthusiasts among earlier Nobel Laureate physicists. One could say that physicists just love to perform or interpret scattering experiments.”

Source : Clifford G. Shull's Speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1994.
“Im Russian Jewish. And I had to grow up really quickly.”
“And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.”
“Sir, will you marry me?”
“Big scandal on the new 'Survivor' series. The white, the black and the Hispanic teams were caught cheating off the Asian team.”
“I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives.”
“I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Sep 23, 2015

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