Henrietta Swan Leavitt Quotes

#1. I think the way I sort of approach it is, you just sort of keep your head down and focus on what you are doing and making shows that people will want to see on Thursday night.

Betsy Beers

#2. The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

Robert Breault

#3. Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.

Padma Lakshmi

#4. We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

Yul Brynner

#5. I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

Billy Crudup

#6. Whether it is sunny or rainy, make your walk to your destination!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. And then she kissed him," he murmurs, "and all manner of thought left his head. It was a kiss he had dreamed about, but it was a thousand times better than his dreams. And he was ruined in all the best ways ... and he'd never be the same again.

Beth Michele

#8. Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.

Marianne Moore

#9. It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.

JoBeth Williams

#10. The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.

Jim Harrison

#11. Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

Bill Ayers

#12. Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be semiobselete.

Carroll Quigley

#13. A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to maxima and minima, thus showing that there is a simple relation between the brightness of the variables and their periods.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt

#14. Young as I was, I still wondered what kind of man this was who, with one leg bandaged, could quell a room full of rough men with a look or a word.

Robin Hobb