top of page
Quote_1.png
James W. Black

"Half-jokingly, I asked what was wrong with me. So we made a deal: I would run his biological research provided I had a free hand to run my new project."

Standard 
 Customized
"Half-jokingly, I asked what was wrong with me. So we made a deal: I would run his biological research provided I had a free hand to run my new project."

Exlpore more Project quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"It's nice to be asked to do good projects."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I get beat up on every project."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"You never know when you start a project just how good it can be."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The main problem was a pacing problem. I had wanted the project to be about 20-30 issues, and I should have written it out as a full script beforehand."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"There are a couple of projects that are sort of on the plate; I haven't closed any of them yet. I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be the best one for me."

Explore more quotes by James W. Black

Quote_1.png
James W. Black
"I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated."
Quote_1.png
James W. Black
"I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly."
Quote_1.png
James W. Black
"The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London."
Quote_1.png
James W. Black
"Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years."
Quote_1.png
James W. Black
"During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on my behalf to keep the initially controversial programme going."
Quote_1.png
James W. Black
"I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion."
Quote_1.png
James W. Black
"We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever."
Quote_1.png
James W. Black
"All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer."
Quote_1.png
James W. Black
"In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions."
Quote_1.png
James W. Black
"My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives."
bottom of page