Florey's Quotes

#1. It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.

Carly Simon

#2. There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

Michael Fassbender

#3. I feel we must all exert ourselves to the utmost to see that the ideals and hopes held by Alfred Nobel, whom we commemorate today, do not fail from lack of purpose on the part of scientists.

Howard Florey

#4. Nobody ever loved as he loves, and so, of course, the rest of the world's experience can be no guide in his case.

Jerome K. Jerome

#5. Each victory with God can bring a reassurance once more that the ones born of God are victorious

Sunday Adelaja

#6. The language sticks to them like cat hair to black trousers, and they do things correctly without knowing why.

Kitty Burns Florey

#7. Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd.

Trey Parker

#8. I believe citizens are beginning to realize that their birthright, a healthy ecosystem, has been stolen, and they want it back.

Charles Clover

#9. Diagramming made language seem friendly, like a dog who doesn't bark, but, instead, trots over to greet you, wagging its tail.

Kitty Burns Florey

#10. My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.

Stephen Mangan

#11. Ifyou believe in something, work nights and weekends, it won't feel like work.

Kevin Rose

#12. It is my belief that books are living things.... And as living things, they need to be protected.

Holly Black

#13. Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use of technical methods.

Howard Florey

#14. Apart from the scientific interest attached to my various journeyings, it has been made clear to me that human needs and aspirations differ little the world over and that no great difficulties arise in one race dealing with another when matters of scientific importance are involved.

Howard Florey

#15. I kiss her and she finds the light switch and turns it off, and we're just lit in Pepsi-can colors and it's like we've finally found this other kind of conversation, this conversation in gestures and pulls and pushes and breaths and grasps and teases and glimmers and rubs and expectation.

David Levithan

#16. I'm now 'Doctor' to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.

Howard Florey