Nossal Quotes

#1. Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.

Mavis Gallant

#2. The noblest art is that of making others happy

P.T. Barnum

#3. I am most proud about the science I've done with my own two hands because I have always thought that even if your life path takes you into a leadership position outside the area you were known for, your legitimacy remains in that first field.

Gustav Nossal

#4. One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

Dian Fossey

#5. Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.

Gustav Nossal

#6. But there were times when you needed trees, and the shame of it, Jaime thought, was that his children were growing up thinking of trees as firewood and his grandchildren would think of trees as history. But

Terry Pratchett

#7. I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

David Gilmour

#8. I ended up spending years on a spiritual quest - diving into the world's great spiritual traditions.

Brandon Bays

#9. Farewell, my friend, Drizzt whispered, trying futilely to keep his voice from breaking. :This journey you make alone.

R.A. Salvatore

#10. I am always being stopped for style advice, and I love it! The way we dress says so much about ourselves, and I love when I can help others take control of that.

Nina Garcia

#11. I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years ... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic.

Gustav Nossal

#12. If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

Vincente Minnelli

#13. It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying it's people who are not willing to hurt other people because the other people are different.

Gene Wolfe

#14. Looking for Mr. Right leads to desperation, because there is no Mr. Right. There is no Mr. Right, because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person.

Marianne Williamson

#15. The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex ... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life.

Gustav Nossal

#16. I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.

Jonah Hill

#17. If you look at 'Breaking Bad,' nothing lacks.

Michelle Monaghan

#18. I like doing both TV and live stuff, though it's nice to mix it up.

Catherine Tate

#19. If you spend too much time living in the past, you never move forward

Jodi Picoult