John Archibald Wheeler Quotes

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

John Archibald Wheeler

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• People adored Element 13's color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silver - a brand-new precious metal. In fact, aluminum became more precious than gold and silver in the 19th century because it was harder to obtain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Color
  • Gold

• I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Process
  • Saying

• I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • Children
  • Want
  • Girl

• I was the hallway clown in high school.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Question
  • Learning
  • Curiosity

• I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Write

• There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Women
  • Church
  • Possible

• I've always thought it would be interesting to give insight on soccer because I have a lot of experience in my career.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Experience
  • Career
  • Interesting

• I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

  

  Rain
  • Inspiration
  • Source
  • Tune

• The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Kind
  • Three
  • Video Games

• For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • Me
  • Luck
  • Word

• I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I was very social. I liked to know everyone.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • School
  • Home
  • Know

• I loved Ingrid Bergman. I sat and saw her on the stage in a theater in the round.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Stage
  • Loved
  • Theater

• Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Remember
  • Actors
  • Fact

• The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Why
  • Rain

• 'Reason', p. 63

  

  Isaac Asimov

• You have to be logical. You know? If I know that in this hotel room they have food every day, and I'm knocking on the door every day to eat, and they open the door, let me see the party, let me see them throwing salami all over, I mean, just throwing food around, but they're telling me there's no food.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Food
  • Party
  • Be Logical

• Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.

  

  Krista Tippett
  • Tolerance

• Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Reality
  • Waiting
  • Easy

• The thing is that, not only do you learn so much about being in front of a camera and stuff being on 'Monday Night RAW,' but at the same time, I'm not really acting on 'Monday Night RAW.'

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • Time
  • Night
  • Monday

• Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew him. I worked with him on a low budget film years ago, and we'd sit around at night while waiting for a shot.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Up
  • Night
  • Growing

• My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

  

  John Archibald Wheeler