James Gleick Quotes
Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.James Gleick
Quotes to Explore
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
Quentin Tarantino -
Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
Barbara Corcoran -
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
Gary Johnson -
I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
Mandy Moore -
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
T. S. Eliot
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
Malcolm X -
I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
Daniel Bryan -
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
Jack Horner -
When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
Daniel Clowes -
My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
Garth Brooks -
Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
Lady Gregory
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
Ted Turner -
Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
Orlando Bloom -
I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
Kailash Satyarthi -
I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
Taylor Swift -
I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
Ian Mckellen -
I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
Oscar Isaac
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It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
Joey Skaggs -
My dad got a job as a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. He teaches biology and genetics. My dad has been obsessed with science his whole life. Both my paternal grandparents were illiterate bamboo farmers, so he really worked his way up and then got a Ph.D., full ride and everything, from universities in America.
Constance Wu -
I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
Zooey Deschanel -
I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.
Immaculee Ilibagiza -
I think that there's a proliferation of music that is done entirely in the bedroom for an Internet audience, but there's no way in hell that you could actually kill off a live show, and its importance in the creation of music - it's just impossible.
Zach Condon -
Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.
James Gleick