Johannes P. Muller Quotes
We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.Johannes P. Muller
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
Natalia Tena -
I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
Vikas Swarup -
I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
Ted Nugent -
About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
Gabe Newell -
I don't even know what my favourite food is anymore, as they are all such bad foods!
Venus Williams -
Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
Lactantius
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Christianity is a battle not a dream.
Wendell Phillips -
Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
Sam Raimi -
I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
Karen Robards -
I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.
Caleb Landry Jones -
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
Pablo Picasso
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
Caitlin Moran -
As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
Patrick Modiano -
I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
Vanessa Hudgens -
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
Barry Mann -
At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
Imelda Staunton -
For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.
Barbara Sukowa
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I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.
Albert Einstein -
I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.
William Styron -
I have two dream roles: One would be a biopic of someone I admire and respect and the other one would be some sort of action drama film similar to a 'Bourne Identity.' I just really want to do an intelligent action drama film.
Michael Ealy -
I don't think kids of color should have to search far and wide to find books that reflect their experience.
Jenny Han -
I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.
Eric Dickerson -
We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.
Johannes P. Muller