Humans are natural-born scientists. When we’re born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises. – Michio Kaku
I’ve read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, ‘Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.’ I don’t want to be part of that. – Matthew McConaughey
Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, ‘Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,’ it’ll be 15, it’ll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you. – Michael J. Fox
I’ve come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that. – Kathy Mattea
Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish. – John Jakes
I want to spend my time exploring the characters we’ve already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members. – Robert Kirkman
There’s art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it’s your time to solo, it’s your time to shine. – Ricky Skaggs
Less make-up is better, and it’s always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance. – Park Shin-hye
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. – Robert Bresson
Let me go to hell, that’s all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss. – Samuel Beckett
I’ve learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I’ve learned that I didn’t want to do. There are those directors who’ve really made me shine and others who’ve made me opaque. – Valeria Golino
Who says that big-budget films are safer than mid-range films? In terms of return on investment, I’d rather have ‘Sling Blade’ and ‘Shine’ than ‘Volcano.’ – Sidney Sheinberg
No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies’ skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets. – Sam Kean
In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America. – William L. Jenkins
It’s taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some. – Shelby Lynne
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. – Thomas Aquinas
I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It’s very intense stuff. – Vanilla Ice
I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom. – Will Self
I think any fight you get into, you’ve got to shine and show that you deserve to be up there. – Stipe Miocic
I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine. – Tony Hsieh
Our job is to sell our clients’ merchandise… not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message. – William Bernbach
My hair is naturally straight, and I maintain its texture. My weekly indulgence is an egg-white and olive oil hair mask that deep-conditions and adds incredible shine. – Yami Gautam
I use egg whites and an olive oil-based hair mask that deep-conditions the hair and adds incredible shine. – Yami Gautam
Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up. – Sherry Argov