Isaac Newton Quotes

Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]

Isaac Newton

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• Mischief
• Knowest

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• I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Diamond
  • Glowing

• The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Beautiful
  • Diamond
  • Jewelry

• I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • Money
  • Happy

• Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't quite form the same four perfect bonds.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Perfect
  • Same
  • Neighbor

• I don't really want a film as a present; you can get me a diamond ring.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Want
  • Present
  • Film

• The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron - and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring - embody the American dream of Eden.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • American
  • Dream
  • Blessed

• Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life.

  

  Chad Michael Murray
  • Life
  • Up
  • Power

• My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all.

  

  Claudia Black
  • Black
  • Mountain
  • Storm

• I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

  

  Djimon Hounsou
  • People
  • Business
  • Hope

• Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.

  

  Chuck Tanner
  • Diamond

• Long before social media existed, the proto-tweets of advertising had penetrated American popular culture: 'A mind is a terrible thing to waste.' 'Where's the beef?' 'A diamond is forever.' 'Think different.' You'd be hard pressed to find a writer's craft that has more directly influenced the vernacular.

  

  David Droga
  • Different
  • Long
  • Mind

• I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn't see in myself at the time. And, you know, he saw a diamond in the rough and kind of, picked me up and blew off all the dust and said, 'I'm telling you, I'm going to make you shine, girl.'

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Difficulties
  • Rhyme
  • Rhyming

• When you see a movie, they always put the Latino on the bad side or in a tacky way. It's not like that. Latinos are shining like a diamond.

  

  J Balvin
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Diamond

• I've done all sorts of different kinds of action. We did a thing in 'Blood Diamond,' the attack on Freetown, where I carefully staged the action but did not show the camera operators what we were going to film - so it has the feel of documentary, trying to capture something, and that gave it a whole different feel.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Done

• Every man needs a good, solid watch. My favorite watch is the Presidential Rolex. I own many watches, but this one is usually the one on my wrist. I buy mine in the Diamond District in New York City. Classic.

  

  Karim Kharbouch
  • Good
  • City
  • Presidential

• I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

  

  Jim Jarmusch
  • American
  • Beautiful
  • Football

• Europeans are dying out. Don't you understand that? And same-sex marriages don't produce children. Do you want to survive by drawing migrants? But society cannot adapt so many migrants.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Children
  • Dying
  • Drawing

• This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center."

  

  Plutarch
  • Believes
  • Motion
  • Rotation

• Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

  

  Will Durant
  • Statement
  • Swift

• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• Hindsight is the most dangerous thing imaginable for me. I imagine that's the case for most filmmakers. And I would love to be a filmmaker who was an exception to that rule, but I'm certainly not.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven

• Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Diamond
  • Mischief
  • Knowest