James Gleick Quotes
As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could have avoided these awkward skips by choosing instead to adjust the duration of the second itself. Who would notice? That is what they did, in fact, until 1955.
James Gleick
Quotes to Explore
Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
Vanessa Paradis
Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
Hannah More
My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
Madchen Amick
I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
Mal Peet
At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
Dana Perino
Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
Frances McDormand
A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
Karen Allen
Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
Bailey Chase
I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.
Jack Wagner
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
Tao Lin
If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
S. Truett Cathy
We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
Orville Redenbacher
New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
Maggie Hassan
I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
J. J. Abrams
Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
Karen Traviss
A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
Oliver Ellsworth
