Charles Francis Richter Quotes
Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity.Charles Francis Richter
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
Jack Dee -
I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
Carlos Ghosn -
I don't like the blame game, though.
Barbara Bush -
For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
Gabrielle Zevin -
The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
Nancy Friday -
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
Ziggy Marley -
I was very quiet at college and had a certain group of friends.
Yami Gautam -
I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
Nathan Sawaya -
I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
Action Bronson -
Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
Sam Barry -
I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
Wendy Davis
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Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
Carlos Santana Santana -
I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
Ed Helms -
I learn my songs by ear.
Kate Smith -
The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
G. Edward Griffin -
The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
Lamar Odom -
The way to resumption is to resume.
Salmon Portland Chase
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My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.
Archie Panjabi -
We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what's to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern.
Frank Abagnale -
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
D. H. Lawrence -
I've had rough first trimesters. But once you get into the second, it's fine after that.
Megan Fox -
I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.
Roz Chast -
Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity.
Charles Francis Richter