Charles Francis Richter Quotes

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

Charles Francis Richter

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• We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

  

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• I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

  

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• My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.

  

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• I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.

  

  Edith Widder
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• For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.

  

  Larry Hogan
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• The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

  

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• I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
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• Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

  

  Aaron Allston
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• Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.

  

  Ted Lindsay
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  • Team
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• You question yourself all the time as a footballer. You have to focus on the positives.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Time
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• Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

  

  Walter Benjamin
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• Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.

  

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• I don't think you can be successful in television without appealing to women. I don't think it's possible. I think that men like women. It doesn't really matter what they do - they love anything. But women don't necessarily like every woman, so I think that's a challenge to get the female audience to not only relate to you but also like you.

  

  Maggie Q
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• When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

  

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• I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.

  

  Warren G. Harding

• My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky;Contrariwise, my blood runs coldWhen little boys go by.For little boys as little boys,No special hate I carry,But now and then they grow to men,And when they do, they marry.No matter how they tarry,Eventually they marry.And, swine among the pearls,They marry little girls.

  

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• Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.

  

  Emma Alice Margaret Asquith
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• Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

  

  Whitney Houston
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• The flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.

  

  Elizabeth Ashley
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  • Devil

• Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

  

  William Shakespeare
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  • Food
  • Fighting

• I've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels. A few years ago, I was convinced of that - I thought I truly was possessed by the devil. I remember sitting through the Exorcist a dozen times, saying to myself, 'Yeah, I can relate to that. I really wish I knew why I've done some of the things I've done over the years. I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think it is - Satan.”

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Remember

• Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

  

  Persius
  • Work
  • Men
  • Heaven

• I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

  

  Charles Francis Richter
  • Devil