"[Agatha Christie] is fond of quoting the witty wife who once said, 'an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. Christie's husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist."

-- Nigel Dennis

#Witty Quotes #Husband Quotes #Science Quotes

“We got interested in aesthetics, and then at the end of all of it we fell off the precipice. It's almost like crawling back because so many techniques are lost, and so we're going to have a [small] reserve of teachers who can teach the vast number of interested students. We have these poor, hungry, starving people who want to learn something and no place to get it. It's a tragedy.”
“My girlfriend looks a little like Charlize Theron...and a lot like Patrick Ewing.”
“It is important to understand that stereotypes and generalizations have an impact in both positive and negative ways. Of course not every person born between 1980 and 2000 is exactly the same as millenials. There are differences within generations. That being said, generations have a personality just as individuals do.”
“There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.”
“In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.”
“This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar (1994). “Fires”, p.99, University of Chicago Press
“Whatever you do in this life, take time to sit quietly and let the world tell you what it needs from you. Take a moment to honestly understand what your gifts are-you have them.”
“I did not want to be an actor because my whole family did it-going into the family business was the last thing I wanted to do.”

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