Laypeople Quotes

#1. I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses.

Leonard Susskind

#2. Laypeople. They think everything in the past happened at the same time.

Christopher L. Bennett

#3. I used to wonder: Do only ignorant laypeople gaze on the colossal bust of Ramses II at the British Museum and ask themselves how it ended up there? Is it only the unschooled visitor who looks at the soaring column from the Temple of Artemis at the Met and questions why it exists in this place?

Sharon Waxman

#4. Civilians is one term journalists use to describe non-journalists. Another is laypeople. Or normals.

Dan Lyons

#5. There can sometimes be this fear among laypeople: 'I don't understand everything in science perfectly, so I just can't say anything about it.' I think it's good to know that we scientists are also confused some of the time.

Lisa Randall

#6. The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

Pope Francis

#7. There is no 'Top Gun 2' in which Maverick is not the starring role.

Christopher McQuarrie

#8. After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the book would work, but to be honest, I think I knew it would never work, even as I was finishing it.

Chang-rae Lee

#9. Life is messy
especially now
it will help if you accept the mess and let it be.

Kristin Hannah

#10. K-State is a dangerous team. Those are the kind of teams you don't want to see in the tournament.

Kelvin Sampson

#11. heard a foreman berating a clerk for sending an order to Des Moines instead of Davenport before the clerk had gotten the shipping form from the front office.

Stephen King

#12. God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Joseph Stowell

#13. I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold horn ring, bottle openers, my 'Fallen' leather jacket and my Slither black and white sweater.

Kelly Wearstler

#14. Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

Anita Roddick

#15. People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy.

Bryant McGill

#16. Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon ... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

Dorothea Lange

#17. Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

Dan Quayle

#18. Think about it; the quicktank is given a job most of us would laugh out of town. Build a sophisticated camera capable of full 3-D input and peripheral pickup, using only water and jelly.
Build an eye.

Warren Ellis