English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Johnny Ball Quotes

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

Johnny Ball

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Peggy Noonan quote: "Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true..."
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. Peggy Noonan
Stephen Fry quote: "Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy."
Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy. Stephen Fry
But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration the demand or the recommendation of the American administration. American administration was very powerful. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Leo Kottke quote: "I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way..."
I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist. Leo Kottke
The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people. Miranda Otto
I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all. John Hawkes
Sid Vicious quote: "I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror."
I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror. Sid Vicious
You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns. Graham Greene
Johnny Weissmuller quote: "I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I..."
I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it. Johnny Weissmuller
Katie Hoff quote: "I'm not saying I didn't have a great 2008. I just made it a..."
I'm not saying I didn't have a great 2008. I just made it a chore. I made it look laborious. Katie Hoff
Gwyneth Paltrow quote: "As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just..."
As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England. Gwyneth Paltrow
It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted. Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual -- and after all what is an individual?" With a sweeping gesture he indicated the rows of microscopes, the test-tubes, the incubators. "We can make a new one with the greatest ease -- As many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the lie of a mere individual; it... Aldous Huxley
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics. Brian Ferneyhough
I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot. Anna Paquin
Theophilus Hopkins was a moderately famous man. You can look him up in the 1860 Britannica. There are three full columns about his corals and his corallines, his anemones and starfish. It does not have anything very useful about the man. It does not tell you what he was like. You can read it three times over and never guess that he had any particular attitude to Christmas pudding. Peter Carey