Quotes About Author

I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.

I think that I got committed to physics at the age of - oh, it must have been 1942 - ten, when most countries were at war and children were interested in airplanes and bombs and such things.

I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics.

My first job out of school was to do basic research at Johns Hopkins University's applied physics lab.

I love physics because it's neat and it's orderly in its own peculiar way.

Deadpool's' probably pretty proud of his comic book hero physique.

My body type and physique has allowed me to be pretty dynamic and allowed me to do multiple things, both in the run game and the pass game.

It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

My brother Max made my desk. It's a masterpiece, like a piano. Everybody who comes in my office loves my desk.

The whole 'grunge-girl' comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.

There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it.

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.

I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

As attorney general, I don't get to pick and choose the laws I like and don't like.

When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.

I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me.

The stupidest question I get is 'Is Goldberg your real name?' I tell people, 'No, my real name is Killer, but I wanted a much more menacing name, so I picked Goldberg.'

Ninety percent of the media picked Pavlik, and I always appreciate naysayers. That's what motivates me.