"I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite."

-- Leo Baekeland

#Trying Quotes #Different Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.”
“Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.”
“I like pressure. If I am not on the edge of failure, I'm not being sufficiently challenged.”
“Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.”
“Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.”
“It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.”
“I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.”
“The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil altogether subside, are neutralized by subsequent generations, absorbed by the incessant movements of future ages. But the discoveries of great men never leave us; they are immortal; they contain those eternal truths which survive the shock of empires, outlive the struggles of rival creeds, and witness the decay of successive religions.”

Source : Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of Civilization in England: In Five Volumes”, p.208

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