We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.

I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.

I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children.

During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned.

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.

No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it.

I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.

We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.

We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns.

When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.

I've burnt my boats, and there they are - smouldering in public view.

People keep saying I've changed. I used to be confrontational. But I'm - I haven't changed. It was - it's just that circumstances have changed.

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.

Cosmic humor especially about your own predicament is an important part of your journey.

For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.

The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred.

I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me.

When I have time, I really enjoy cooking.

And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you did the day before, it makes you look forward and it makes you think in a way that's going to make the product better, which is the students and the education.

This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.

I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.

I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.

Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.

I had the ability to make a difference, even if I didn't know what that difference was yet.

I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh.