Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson) Quotes

It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

Ernest Rutherford

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• As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.

  

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• The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

  

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• I can't argue my way out of a paper bag.

  

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• A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

  

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• There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.

  

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• Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.

  

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• My ideal man is dead white old and on a green sheet of paper.

  

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• The drys seemingly are afraid of the truth. Why not take inventory and ascertain the true conditions. Let us not leave it to the charge of an antiprohibition organization, or to any other private association, let us have an official survey and let the American people know what is going on. A complete and honest and impartial survey would reveal incredible conditions.

  

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• When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

  

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• I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

  

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• Two broken pieces making a whole.

  

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• You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I‘ll never recover.

  

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• Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!

  

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• The woman I'm attracted to won't be based on what I write down on paper. It's going to be what I feel.

  

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• The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another.

  

  Pal Benko
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• Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.

  

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• 'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work hard, make your own way, be independent.

  

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• The Corcoran show was actually almost a reportage. The exhibit was, in many ways, pretty unique. It was one of the first pieces about DC culture that doesn't include some marble building or the Kennedy Center.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

  

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• If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips. "Are you dying for him?" she whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes." "Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last.

  

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• Even the police have an unlisted number.

  

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• You don't see heroism, humanity and hope like you do in a horror story. Horror celebrates the kind of friendship that keeps you standing shoulder to shoulder with someone even when the world is falling apart around you.

  

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• It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • Pieces
  • Paper
  • Incredibles