William Lawrence Bragg quote: "[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind."

I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contac...
WILLIAM LAWRENCE BRAGG

Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin...
WILLIAM BRAGG, SR.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinki...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of th...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG

The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them b...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them b...
WILLIAM BRAGG SR.

When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules ...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG

Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand time...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG

I've often been impressed with a girl Who could sing for her supper - and breakfast as well
WILLIAM BRAGG SR.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin...
WILLIAM BRAGG SR.

The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and g...
MELVYN BRAGG

In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism,...
MELVYN BRAGG

I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. Pe...
MELVYN BRAGG

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carrie...
RICK BRAGG

The theatre always seems to be in trouble but always thriving. It's deeply comical to me that we...
MELVYN BRAGG

Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!
MELVYN BRAGG

We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expresse...
MELVYN BRAGG

I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it.
MELVYN BRAGG

The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of cluster...
MELVYN BRAGG

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I ...
RICK BRAGG

I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He i...
MELVYN BRAGG

To have accountability you must get out and vote!
BILLY BRAGG

A song is like a newspaper. It's capable of carrying a number of different messages. Some of them ar...
BILLY BRAGG

A part of my job is to bring the news from elsewhere to here and to take back some news from here. ....
BILLY BRAGG

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
BILLY BRAGG

Protest music was prematurely declared to be unfashionable,
BILLY BRAGG

Mermaid Avenue Vol. II,
BILLY BRAGG

The thing about Strummer was he walked it like he talked it, ... He didn't cop out. He didn't show o...
BILLY BRAGG

And since September 11 and the war with Iraq, I think people are more attuned to music that's got so...
BILLY BRAGG

They were the true inheritors of the mantle of The Clash.
BILLY BRAGG

Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
BILLY BRAGG

I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disrega...
MELVYN BRAGG

Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District.
MELVYN BRAGG

It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy -...
MELVYN BRAGG

I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philh...
MELVYN BRAGG

That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians...
BILLY BRAGG

We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. ...
MELVYN BRAGG

Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to liste...
MELVYN BRAGG

Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reser...
MELVYN BRAGG

In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it.
MELVYN BRAGG

It is impossible to get enough books, don't you find? But where are we without them? Just words on t...
MELVYN BRAGG

Yet it seemed to Bega that if she could continue to read, which had come so easily to her... then th...
MELVYNN BRAGG

It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, bu...
BILLY BRAGG

As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics.
MELVYN BRAGG

Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do,...
MELVYN BRAGG

Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, num...
MELVYN BRAGG

Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never...
MELVYN BRAGG

I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even ...
MELVYN BRAGG

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they sho...
BILLY BRAGG

This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ea...
RICK BRAGG

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.
MELVYN BRAGG

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.
BILLY BRAGG

You can only make political music if you have a context. . . . You cannot make political music in a ...
BILLY BRAGG

And just because you're gay, I won't turn you away.
If you stick around, I'm sure we can find so...
BILLY BRAGG

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportun...
BILLY BRAGG

I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it ...
MELVYN BRAGG

The revolution is just a T-shirt away.

- Waiting for the Great Leap Forward
BILLY BRAGG

This is our showpiece this season, we're tickled.
GARY BRAGG

Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an...
MELVYN BRAGG

I'm a class mongrel.
MELVYN BRAGG

Welcome to what we're calling 'I'll Be Your Bobby Tonight'.
BILLY BRAGG

But I hope that I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books,
by books that are bo...
RICK BRAGG

The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other...
MELVYN BRAGG

In the Mountains, they cooked, too.
Joe Godwin made liquor in Muscadine. Moe Shealey made it in...
RICK BRAGG

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.
RICK BRAGG

More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal.
MELVYN BRAGG

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage tro...
BILLY BRAGG

I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to beli...
MELVYN BRAGG

The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a yea...
MELVYN BRAGG

A lot of people broke their arms on these cranks; it's similar to what was used on early cars.
GARY BRAGG

Maybe a few dozen are left.
GARY BRAGG

This is Cat history. Compared to the feeding and caring of horses, this was wonderful.
GARY BRAGG

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.
BILLY BRAGG

That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world....
BILLY BRAGG

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.
BILLY BRAGG

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.
BILLY BRAGG

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go ...
BILLY BRAGG

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved...
BILLY BRAGG

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters fro...
BILLY BRAGG

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at al...
BILLY BRAGG

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.
BILLY BRAGG

I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come...
BILLY BRAGG

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own persona...
BILLY BRAGG

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of ...
BILLY BRAGG

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which ...
BILLY BRAGG

But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wou...
BILLY BRAGG

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs t...
BILLY BRAGG

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
BILLY BRAGG

All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real ...
BILLY BRAGG

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.
BILLY BRAGG

The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a jo...
BILLY BRAGG

If no one seems to understand
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman

- ...
BILLY BRAGG

Passion is something you really don't miss, after it has cooled. It is like looking at an empty bott...
RICK BRAGG

The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and...
RICK BRAGG

One: Don't kill yourself.
Two: Don't kill each other.
Three: Try hard not to kill nobody e...
RICK BRAGG

These were people who remembered the weight of the cotton sack, people with grease under their finge...
RICK BRAGG

They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for hi...
GENERAL EDWARD STUYVESANT BRAGG

We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, a...
VICKI LAWRENCE

In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evenin...
LAWRENCE WELK

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I did...
LAWRENCE WELK

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers...
LAWRENCE WELK

Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.
LAWRENCE WELK

Sounds always fascinated me.
LAWRENCE WELK

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
LAWRENCE WELK

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became ...
LAWRENCE WELK

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the count...
LAWRENCE WELK

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or...
LAWRENCE WELK

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
LAWRENCE WELK

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. ...
LAWRENCE WELK

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
LAWRENCE WELK

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
LAWRENCE WELK

If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
LAWRENCE WELK

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
LAWRENCE WELK

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
LAWRENCE WELK

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the mone...
LAWRENCE WELK

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
LAWRENCE WELK

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
LAWRENCE WELK

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finishe...
LAWRENCE WELK

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for ...
LAWRENCE WELK

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE

I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
VICKI LAWRENCE

I am not a politician; I've never run for anything in my life. I'm an economist. I'm a b...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigratio...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage.
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not kn...
D.H. LAWRENCE

We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large ...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and yo...
VICKI LAWRENCE

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to wo...
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER

And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've sta...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE

When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off th...
VICKI LAWRENCE

The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were real...
VICKI LAWRENCE

It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to p...
VICKI LAWRENCE

Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Bur...
VICKI LAWRENCE

People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless th...
VICKI LAWRENCE

Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
VICKI LAWRENCE

Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
VICKI LAWRENCE

I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a prett...
VICKI LAWRENCE

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR

On economic policy, Pence has held to the key building block of growth. He is a budget hawk who vote...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton...
CAROLINE LAWRENCE

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get int...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR

In the 1980s and 1990s, radical change in economic policies fostered by Ronald Reagan and Margaret T...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign hi...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY

Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f...
MARK LAWRENCE

Yes, there should be tough border security. Yes, there should be foolproof ID cards, with biometrics...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Great innovators like Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie didn't rely on governm...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.”
Snorri shook his head. “A...
MARK LAWRENCE

Those were great big angry men with sharp swords actually wanting to cut pieces off me. It’s not u...
MARK LAWRENCE

It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefie...
MARK LAWRENCE

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 As for the miseries and sins he heard of da...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least litt...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we se...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thér...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942 I have quitted all forms of devotion and set p...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other t...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 You will tell me...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Use yourself then by deg...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

He had no qualms; "for", said he, "when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, 'I am u...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk wit...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

[He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

One way to recall the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 [He said:] That all possible kinds of mortification, if they ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Feast of Thomas the Apostle Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictio...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness o...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

Youth and patience are foreign to one another.
R.J. LAWRENCE

It's easier to be wise for others than for yourself.
R.J. LAWRENCE

Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.
LAWRENCE LESSIG

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not...
D.H. LAWRENCE

[in the true mad north] of introspection,
where 'falcons of the inner eye'
dive and die, g...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
D.H. LAWRENCE

The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter o...
BROTHER LAWRENCE

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake u...
T.E. LAWRENCE

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Music is only love looking for words.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE

Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody else's house to earn money? You're working class. We...
LAWRENCE SUTTON

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love l...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.
HARDING LAWRENCE

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British wha...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
LAWRENCE DURRELL

There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had bro...
MARK LAWRENCE

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them...
LAWRENCE DURRELL

There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, ...
ELIZABETH LAWRENCE

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY

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