Ernest Walton Quotes

Particles were coming out of the lithium, hitting the screen, and producing scintillations. They looked like stars suddenly appearing and disappearing.

Ernest Walton

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• Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • People
  • Time
  • History

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Taken

• It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Human
  • Actor

• By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Love
  • Rock

• I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Time
  • Health
  • Myself

• American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • American
  • Know
  • Management

• I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • Job
  • Dad
  • Effective

• I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Want
  • Democracy

• I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Done
  • Why
  • Know

• God has created us and poured love into our hearts so that we may do our best to alleviate the suffering that is around us.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • God
  • Love
  • May

• I took a Ferrari under the 405 freeway. We took rent-a-cars through the desert. That was fun.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Fun
  • Desert
  • Ferrari

• While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Political

• The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Government
  • Organization
  • Leaving

• I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • World
  • Alone
  • Sad

• 'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Think

• There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Child
  • Creative
  • Hunger

• One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Health
  • Focus
  • Quality

• All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,' 'All My Sons.' But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own way.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Political

• My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.

  

  T-Pain
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Change

• Sure enough, it wasn't long until I got a call, telling me I had a scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Telling

• Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Stars
  • Here
  • Stoned

• Particles were coming out of the lithium, hitting the screen, and producing scintillations. They looked like stars suddenly appearing and disappearing.

  

  Ernest Walton
  • Stars
  • Screen
  • Producing