Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Steinhardt

The pattern in which photons are blocked or not blocked had never really been computed. In the laboratory, we were able to construct a device that was effectively like doing a computer simulation to see the patterns of transmission.

David Malpass

For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth.

Dev Hynes

Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.

Carl Sagan

When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules.

Antoni Tapies

Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.

Charlie Dacey

That was huge. You've got to block out on a free throw. No one's moving, everyone's standing still, and you just don't block out on a free throw. Simple little mistakes.

Richard Long

That would be a big block in terms of the way Telstra looks at this. But I wouldn't expect the board to dismiss it out of hand. They will at least look at it.

Evan Wolfson

The 1913 law is an artifact of an era of trying to block racial equality. It's serving its mission of discrimination.

Jeff Bzdelik

We came out of the blocks with good energy and it was a wire-to-wire win over a good team.

Petrarch

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

James A. Baldwin

Color is not a human or a personal reality it is a political reality.

Dick Armey

Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.

Diane Setterfield

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

David Brooks

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

David Brooks

If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.

David Shields

To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

David Morrell

A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.

David Mitchell

Reality is the page. Life is the word.

Edmund Stoiber

The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable,

Brittany Snow

I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things.

Bikram Choudhury

I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth.

C. S. Lewis

As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

Cecelia Ahern

I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.

Carl Sagan

And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?

Bethenny Frankel

Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring.

Bethany Hamilton

I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.