Top 100 Compton's Quotes
#1. As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#2. Bad friends try to change you, good friends accept your differences, while true friends embrace and celebrate them. Watching this circle of clowns, I know I've made the truest of friends. I'm glad I didn't settle for anything else.
A.J. Compton
#4. Good thinking," he replied. "There's a town I remember being about 10 miles before Lincoln, where we turn off to head for the ski lodge, Compton or Campton, something like that. We can find a place to hide the truck there." "Campton,
Scott Medbury
#6. It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals, which have indeed made it possible for him to become human.
Arthur Compton
#7. Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.
John Hartford
#9. People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#10. To a Mormon at the doorstep of a psychologis: I know what you think you think, but I know what you think.
Rodney Compton
#11. Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#12. We're once again just a boy and a girl searching and failing for words and moments that transcend the mundane.
A.J. Compton
#13. Although we try to control it in a million different ways, the only things you can ever really do to time are enjoy it, or waste it. That's it.
A.J. Compton
#14. Oh, I took some night school courses in psychology, said Bill Compton, vampire.
Charlaine Harris
#15. People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#17. I never grew up in the Valley. I lived in Compton/Gardena my whole life.
Tyga
#19. I will fight death for my right to live until my last breath.
A.J. Compton
#20. A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#21. [On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#22. My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.
Kendrick Lamar
#23. Love is not standing in someone's shadow, it's basking in their light. The blinding strength of your light combined pushes the darkness away.
A.J. Compton
#24. This is not good," I said. "These guys have a superiority complex bigger than Miss Compton's butt."
"And she had the biggest butt of them all," Kyle said.
John Corwin
#25. As we turn our backs on the cold night air, I realize that it's moments like this where true freedom lies.
Invisible but palpable, below a sky full of stars, our freedom lies in between a boy who sees a girl, and the girl that feels him.
Truly, deeply, freely.
A.J. Compton
#26. You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#27. The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.
Compton Mackenzie
#28. Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.
Compton Mackenzie
#29. I'm no longer on the outside looking in, but on the inside looking around. This new vantage point makes all the difference. It's amazing how a change of perspective can change a life.
A.J. Compton
#30. Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#32. The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.
Henry Rollins
#33. In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.
Karl Taylor Compton
#34. It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#36. Sometimes absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. Sometimes it just makes the heart hurt.
A.J. Compton
#37. There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.
Ice Cube
#38. I love just being passionate about something rather than just caring about the money or whos in the movie.
Scout Taylor-Compton
#39. Fermi thought plutonium production needed an area a mile wide and two miles long for safety. Compton proposed building piles of increasing power to work up to full-scale production and was considering alternative sites in the Lake Michigan Dunes area and in the Tennessee Valley.
Richard Rhodes
#41. A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#42. Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy, which experiment has shown to exist in quantities millions of times greater than is liberated by combustion.
Arthur Compton
#43. No amount of artificial protection can permanently maintain an obsolete product, an inferior process or a moribund organization against competitors which are based on scientifically improved products or methods.
Karl Taylor Compton
#44. One is so apt nowadays to regard even one's own motives and actions during the War with a contemptuous cynicism that it is as well to remind oneself of emotions which were profoundly and sincerely felt.
Compton Mackenzie
#45. If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me ...
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#46. Arthur Compton became my graduate advisor. He was the ideal graduate advisor for me: he came into my research room only once during my graduate career and usually had no idea how I was spending my time.
Luis W. Alvarez
#49. Our trials and our times of pain get the most recognition, but 'Straight Outta Compton' speaks to triumph. When it's doubtful, when nobody is on your side, when your back is against the wall, you triumph and make it through. Showing growth through movies promotes growth.
O'Shea Jackson Jr.
#50. Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.
Arthur Compton
#51. Your staying or leaving doesn't impact the premise of your demand, which seems to be that I have no control over myself. That's wrong. I decide who destroys me, not you, Mark Compton.
Lisa Renee Jones
#52. I loved him before I knew him. I missed him before I met him. We were soulmates long before we were strangers.
A.J. Compton
#53. Whose fault is it, then? Dennis Compton's (Basil Fawlty)
John Cleese
#55. Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
Eazy-E
#56. Poetry is the guardian of love - constructed from truth it is a bridge that can be crossed from either side and it is oblivious of age or gender
Rodney Compton
#57. Well, of course, people are only human ... But it really does not seem much for them to be.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#58. Pete urged Louie to enter the Compton Open and try his legs at a longer distance. "If you stay with Norman Bright," he told Louie, "you make the Olympic team.
Laura Hillenbrand
#59. I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#61. It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#62. Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.
Arthur Compton
#63. We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#64. Adequate photographers use their sight, good photographers use their senses, and great photographers use their souls.
A.J. Compton
#65. Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes it seems that I do so, but I would not write for no-one.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#66. When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#68. The movies 'Dope' and 'Straight Outta Compton' blew me away. I love seeing directors and writers of color make amazing slices of pop culture.
Hasan Minhaj
#69. When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.
Kym Whitley
#71. The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is universal, and is a powerful force in bringing the peoples of the world closer together.
Arthur Compton
#72. Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#73. Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#74. We live and learn, change and grow. Older, but not always wiser. Stronger but not necessarily smarter. Life is a dance of steps taken forward and backwards, time spent standing still, and twirling in circles as we follow our own shadows.
A.J. Compton
#75. It is only to the sentimentalist over some tame midland prospect that man appears vile. In Sirene he holds his own with the sublime eccentricity of the natural scene. In Sirene he lives.
Compton Mackenzie
#78. There's magic and metaphors in music superior to any other art form. An exquisite alchemy is involved in mixing pieces of your self and soul into the precisely perfect blend of harmonies, melodies, and lyrics that strike a chord.
A.J. Compton
#79. We each get twenty-four hours.
1,440 minutes.
86,400 seconds.
Every day for the rest of your days.
You can't make more, or give any away.
But you can prioritize them for the right people, or waste them on the wrong ones.
A.J. Compton
#80. Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#82. There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#83. A young, beautiful mayor's with high-powered plans for the city of Compton must put them aside to become a sleuth to solve the assassination of her husband, the mayor.
Martha Tucker
#85. I'm a feeler. I feel everything deep within my core. Even when I don't want to. I don't know where my emotions stop and my empathy begins. I feel from the tips of my toes to the follicles of my head. I feel with every fiber, every molecule, every tissue, marrow, muscle, and bone in my body. I feel.
A.J. Compton
#86. As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
Venus Williams
#87. There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#88. Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#90. We finally figured out that when you set off a nuke in space, that's when the EMP effect really kicks in, as the energy burst hits the upper atmosphere. It becomes like a pebble triggering an avalanche, the electrical disturbances magnifying. It's in the report. It's called the 'Compton Effect.
William R. Forstchen
#91. Brown pulled the bag closer to his side. He had nothing but good memories from his time overseas. That's the truth nobody knew. Since coming home he'd been labeled a baby-killer and a murderer, and things had been bad enough for him and his family when he went into the military.
Sheldon Lee Compton
#92. Chapter Twenty-Four Excerpt from President Compton's Speech Emergency Declaration My
Jay Allan
#93. I can say is if anyone gets a chance to work with [Dr.]Dre, it's a moment you will always take with you throughout your career. And as of right now, the Compton album is the only thing to talk about.
Kendrick Lamar
#94. At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar's last breath.
Arthur Compton
#95. 'Straight Outta Compton' is not a story we didn't know about or anything like that, but it's just something that resonated really well ... It had no choice but to explode.
Jason Mitchell
#96. I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over."
I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?"
That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it.
Charlaine Harris
#97. The word meltdown had not yet entered the reactor engineer's vocabulary - Fermi was only then inventing that specialty - but that is what Compton was risking, a small Chernobyl in the midst of a crowded city.
Richard Rhodes
#98. Sometimes things don't have to have a point. There's a special kind of beauty and freedom in the just because.
A.J. Compton
#99. The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#100. I love you," Bill said helplessly, as if he wished those magic words would heal me. But he knew they wouldn't.
"That's what you all keep saying," I answered. "But it doesn't seem to get me any happier.
Charlaine Harris
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