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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Quote by Sinclair Lewis about love, celebrity

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is...

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Quote by Sinclair Lewis about olderness, age, old, poets

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he...

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

Quote by Sinclair Lewis about people, insults, humor, common sense, sense, human imperfections, being

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human...

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to aknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.

Quote by Lewis Thomas about feelings, human imperfections, time

I just feel like the best I can do is step up to the microphone, sing something I can get my vocal teeth into. That must be how Lennox Lewis feels when he gets into the ring. That's my domain. And you can't make everybody love what you do, but you...

Quote by Michael Bolton about love

Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little...

Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.

Quote by Joe Cocker

I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about country

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about education, children, bankers, police, being, school

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as...

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about parents, children

Along with my parents insistence, soon internalized, that...

Along with my parents insistence, soon internalized, that I do very well in school, went my love of reading and my love of mechanics.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about parents, school, love

As every child knows, chemistry with nothing stronger...

As every child knows, chemistry with nothing stronger than vinegar soon becomes dull.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about children, nothing

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty...

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about family, poverty

For example, I am not a good craftsman.

For example, I am not a good craftsman.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about example, good, good luck

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed...

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about education, good, good luck, school, affair

However, Allied Printing brought the four of us into the...

However, Allied Printing brought the four of us into the middle class and kept us in the middle class thru the Depression of the 1930's.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about depression

I enrolled in the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, now...

I enrolled in the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, now Polytechnic University, and began studying chemical engineering.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about education

I entered the physics doctoral program in Columbia...

I entered the physics doctoral program in Columbia University in the autumn of 1950.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about opinion, physics, autumn

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about teaching, work

I loved all things mechanical, cars, trucks, derricks...

I loved all things mechanical, cars, trucks, derricks trains, and steam ships. I was in love with mechanics, and I still am.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about love, trains, cars, things

I loved rainy days when I did not have to go outside, and...

I loved rainy days when I did not have to go outside, and to the present I still feel very content on a rainy day.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about love, day, present

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