Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gabriel Lippmann

The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.

Gabriel Lippmann

This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.

Gabriel Lippmann

During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.

Gabriel Lippmann

The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.

Virginia Johnson

Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian.

Virginia Johnson

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

William Glasser

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.

David Viscott

To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

James Hillman

We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.

William Christopher

I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic.

Sandra Ford

We're very pushed to have our grades on target so we can play. We have to make sure all our homework is done.

Gil Brandt

Usually they're in the ballpark. Seldom do you have a third-round grade and the guy is picked in the first, and seldom do you have a second-round grade and he's picked in the sixth.

Xiao Yaqing

The quality of the bauxite is lower than the top grades in Australia, but it's much better than those in China.

Sean Hayes

We are really pleased with our results and 69% of students received A to C grade passes.

Eric Johnson

I was terrible my first year. In 10th grade I was still bad, but the team needed someone that small. I knew that I just needed to stay off my back for the team.

Michael Keaton

My first day in grade school, I was plain scared. I left the comfort of my run-down house, which I loved, and went to school where it was cold, it smelled, the lighting was bad.

Mike Davis

We're moving more than a grade level a year. That's way more impressive than anything we've done so far.

Gov. Carcieri

We are going to know what is going on with learning in grades 3 to 8, and we are testing for that, so the light will shine.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Iyad Allawi

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

Jane Lindskold

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

Niger Innis

We must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of the nation's and world's most powerless and impoverished people.

Christopher Koch

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.

Louis C. K.

Maybe God is an asshole...of course not, he's not an asshole, he's imaginary.

Joseph Brodsky

All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend.

Anne Miller

AN IMAGINARY AXIS OF EVIL: IRAN FROM THE INSIDE,

Nicholas Eberstadt

To talk of 'a peaceful North Korean nuclear industry' is to talk of an imaginary animal, like a unicorn,

Rickie Lee Jones

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

David Steinberg

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

Nancy Pelosi

The American people paid the price of corruption.

Fabio Barbosa

We have that right and we paid for it. We're not going to give it up without compensation.

Robert Kiyosaki

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.

Claudia Smith

I worked all my life, paid for my house, just remodeled it and then boom. It's hard. There's nothing to do. I don't know what's next.

Chris Hall

I was very pleased with Michael's performance in only his second paid outing.

Andy Irons

On my waves I just did as many turns as I could and it paid off.

John Hopkins

If a student has already paid tuition for his or her university, that's it, we don't take any money,

Aaron McGruder

It astounds me that good, responsible white people paid for this show.

Bikram Choudhury

Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?

V. S. Naipaul

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

C. S. Lewis

What do they teach them at these schools?

Cathy Rigby

In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.

Carrie Preston

Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.

Carrie Brownstein

Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the structures that help make me whole." Family, or school, or the city I live in. When those structures are dysfunctional or decaying, you end up kind of Frankensteining pieces from everywhere in order to make yourself sated and comfortable and alive.

Carrie Underwood

I did most of my volunteer work when I was in college because I knew of more ways to get involved. In high school, we'd do things like, there was a homeless shelter near our hometown and our church group decorated one of the rooms. In college, I was in a sorority, and we did a lot of things, like pick up trash on the highway.

Carrie Underwood

I'm about the only person in my family that's made it to 24 without being married. That's the way it works where I'm from. Most people, if you find someone to marry in high school, you do that, and if you don't find that, then you find someone in college.

Bill Burr

I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.

Tom Foreman

We've had dialogue. It's just like the old days, in terms of the relationship.

Chris Pelchen

We're waiting on the Kangaroos to come back in terms of that deal.

Hamdi Ulukaya

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Stephen Davis

I don't think of this in terms of winning,

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Tom Davis

We were having trouble getting out on the shooters. They just drilled us.

William Shakespeare

The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.

Dan Kelso

I thought it was important that passed. Without that, we would have been in trouble as a town.

Olin Browne

I thought it was for 58, ... I've always had trouble with math.

Dave Johnson

I was in a lot of trouble as a kid.

Charlaine Harris

Don’t go looking for trouble; it’s already looking for you.

David Tang

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

Chad Everett

If not for my family, I would have been in big trouble.

Charles Spurgeon

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.