Dorothy Hodgkin Epitaph Quotes

I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal structures are easy to solve. I seem to have spent much more of my life not solving structures than solving them. ~ Dorothy Hodgkin

The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity. ~ Dorothy Hodgkin

I used to say the evening that I developed the first x-ray photograph I took of insulin in 1935 was the most exciting moment of my life. But the Saturday afternoon in late July 1969, when we realized that the insulin electron density map was interpretable, runs that moment very close. ~ Dorothy Hodgkin

I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals. ~ Dorothy Hodgkin

A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty. ~ Dorothy Hodgkin

I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the same class as Eigen or Bragg or Pauling, nor was she as good as Dorothy Hodgkin. She did not even select DNA to study. It was given to her. Her theoretical crystallography was very average. ~ Francis Crick

I'm no relation to Lillian or Dorothy Gish. Not even way back. But when I first became interested in acting, I wrote a letter to Lillian Gish. She wrote back, discouraging me from entering the business. ~ Annabeth Gish

The first thing a principle does is to kill somebody.
Gaudy Night ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed. ~ Howard Hodgkin

Today,' said Lymond, 'if you must know, I don't like living at all. But that's just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I'll be bright as a bedbug again. ~ Dorothy Dunnett

Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located". ~ James Nicoll

Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true. ~ Dorothy Parker

The glass-blower's cat is bompstable, said Mr. Parker aloud and distinctly. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

One difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that a conviction can be explained without getting angry. ~ Dorothy Sarnoff

God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them ~ Dorothy Day

Coercion. The unpardonable crime. ~ Dorothy Richardson

Well, get the coffer out," said Tobie roundly. "You find his clean clothes and I'll cut his hair round his cap and wash his ears out. Then, when we get to the Palazzo Medici, you imitate his voice and I'll sit him on my knee and move his arms up and down. Where is the problem? ~ Dorothy Dunnett

The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only. ~ Dorothy Parker

Your husband appears to possess an uncanny gift for seducing his enemies. ~ Dorothy Dunnett

Jerott?' said Lymond. 'What are you not saying?' His eyes, as the orderly cavalcade paced through the muddy streets, had not left that forceful aquiline face since they met. And Jerott, Philippa saw with disbelief, flushed. For a moment longer, the strict blue eyes studied him; and then Lymond laughed. 'She's an eighteen-year-old blonde of doubtful virginity? Or more frightful still, an eighteen-year-old blonde of unstained innocence? I shall control my impulses, Jerott, I promise you. I'm only going to throw her out if she looks like a troublemaker, or else so bloody helpless that we'll lose lives looking after her. Not everyone,' he said, in a wheeling turn which caught Philippa straining cravenly to hear, 'is one of Nature's Marco Polos like the Somerville offspring. ~ Dorothy Dunnett

If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves. ~ Dorothy Nolte

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live. ~ Dorothy Parker

People are more fun than anyone. ~ Dorothy Parker

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self ... ~ Dorothy Gilman

I do not dance,' said Jean-Claude, who had forsworn that exercise for much the same reasons as Miss Stevenson.

But here he spoke too soon, for Lady Dorothy Bingham, merciless to what she called 'ballroom skulkers', saw him standing about, ordered John to introduce him to her, and became his patroness.

Not till he had miserably danced twice with her and once with each of the twins did he have the brilliant idea of introducing her to his mother. The master minds met, and recognised each other, and for the greater part of the evening they discussed the care and subjugation of a family... ~ Angela Thirkell

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

The more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of himself ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming. ~ Dorothy Stratten

My Epitaph:
THIS is Plan B ~ Oran Kangas

My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not. ~ Dorothy Fields

Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost. ~ Dorothy Parker

Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their souls ... Consistent with this goal, the first book written and printed for children in America was titled Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England, drawn from the Breasts of both Testaments for their Souls' Nourishment. ~ Dorothy H Cohen

This is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity ... You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Christians must revive a centuries-old view of humankind as made in the image of God, the eternal Craftsman, and of work as a source of fulfillment and blessing not as a necessary drudgery to be undergone for the purpose of making money, but as a way of life in which the nature of man should find its proper exercise and delight and so fulfill itself to the glory of God. That it should, in fact, be thought of as a creative activity undertaken for the love of the work itself; and that man, made in God's image, should make things, as God makes them, for the sake of doing well a thing that is well worth doing. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature. ~ Dorothy Parker

To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them. ~ Dorothy Day

Our speculations about Shakespeare are almost as multifarious and foolish as our speculations about the maker of the universe, and, like those, are frequently concerned to establish that his works were not made by him but by another person of the same name. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

If you ask a negative, unanswerable question, you will get a negative, impractical answer. The question you ask determines the focus of your thinking, your focus determines your attitude, and your attitude determines your ability to take action. ~ Dorothy Leeds

The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins. ~ Sally Phillips

Books alone were not adequate preparation for life - as Mary was herself discovering. And by pointing this out, she was pointing a finger at those, like her father and Shelley, who sometimes insisted otherwise ~ Dorothy Hoobler

Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it. ~ Dorothy Kilgallen

What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life. ~ Dorothy Allison

If I should labor through daylight and dark,
Consecrate, valorous, serious, true,
Then on the world I may blazon my mark;
And what if I don't, and what if I do? ~ Dorothy Parker

It was the most natural thing in the world because from out of his mouth were coming most of the things I felt. In another person, one i did not have this attachment to, it would have been gushing, clingy and embarrassing, from him it was like having a mirror held up to my soul. ~ Dorothy Koomson