I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.

Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress.

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.

In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.

Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children.

On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.

I'm not a comedian, I'm an actor.

I am president and do not have the right to give in to emotions. I have bad moods, very bad moods, but I never feel despair.

A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.

Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.

There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.

I prioritise story over science, but not at the expense of being really stupid about it.

There is no better day than today to do the things youve been putting off. Take action its the only way to change your life

I used to waterski on the Niagara River.

I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough. The more they reveal themselves, the more we love them, but there's a lot of truth in what they're showing.

The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark like the president walking in today, with bodyguards all around him.

The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

George Bush is trying to play it both ways.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

'Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.

From activist stage, I just spoke and said whatever I had to say. When the writing started, I would just read it. Then I had the interest into going into musical aspects. When that happened in '86, I liked the result of work we did in the studio.

When your will power is gone you are helpless.

There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on.

The little bee returns with evenings gloom to join her comrades in the braided hive there housed beside their might honey comb they dream their polity shall long survive.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.