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“My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.”

Ifs I Can Important Problem Theory Concern Connected Glad Manage Branches Contribution Particles Cosmology Gravitation

Author:Andrei Sakharov

“Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence spoken to me: and not only because it says something which manages to touch my desire, but because of its syntactical turn (framing), which will inhabit me like a memory.”

I Can Desire Turns Fall Memories Scene Falling In Love Sentences Manage Visuals Framing

Book:A lover's discourse: fragments

Source: A lover's discourse: fragments

“I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.”

Way Trying I Can Turns Aspect Paint Manage Landscape Manipulation Manipulate Pictorial Pretty Places

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.”

People Want Trying I Can Sometimes Hands Difficult Manage Freak Control Freak

Author:Victoria Beckham

“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.”

People Want Long Stills I Can Manage Sweetness

Book:A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

Source: A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

“We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.”

Source: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval

“The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.”

Giving Feels I Can Book Today Fiction Highest Consequence Science Fiction Manage Unexpected Compliment Surreal Relentless

Author:Jamais Cascio

“Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.”

People I Can Purpose Choices Asks Answers Arms Gratitude Angry Legs Despite Manage Limbs Being Thankful Thankful Gratitude

Author:Nick Vujicic