Evangelista Torricelli Quotes

Winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth.

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• I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Death
  • Situation
  • Danger

• Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • See
  • Everything
  • Got

• What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Live
  • Like
  • Jazz

• It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Bird

• Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • World
  • Ability
  • Take

• Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Guy
  • Just
  • Fame

• I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Want
  • Popular
  • Differences

• Only bad writers think they're good.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Political
  • Confusion
  • Only

• You make me feel like a natural man

  

  Carole King
  • Men
  • Feels
  • Natural

• She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She
  • Small

• In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies.

  

  B.S. Johnson
  • Lies
  • Lying
  • Generalization

• We talked about the resources that the justice department has available to help them -- the technical assistance to ensure that we're diffusing situations, not encouraging them to spiral out of control.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Help
  • Control
  • Justice

• Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Women
  • History

• If you ask me, the hypothetical zenith of gaming technology is direct neural interface - no body to hamper you and your brain is in whatever you want it to be in. Plus it leads to existential uncertainty, which could be entertaining.

  

  Yahtzee Croshaw
  • Technology
  • Brain
  • Zenith

• If we are to control our own future, it will be necessary, not only to obtain the cooperation of people, but to prepare comprehensive plans for that future.

  

  Carl Eckart
  • Future
  • Control
  • Plans

• There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.

  

  Lynne Cheney
  • Opinion
  • Differences

• We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • True
  • Learn
  • Differences

• She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Life
  • Differences
  • Graves

• But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Together
  • Innovation

• Winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth.

  

  Evangelista Torricelli
  • Differences
  • Winds
  • Temperature