Simon Newcomb Quotes

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

Simon Newcomb

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• I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Mind
  • Enjoy
  • Take

• I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

  

  Banksy
  • Money
  • Art
  • Guy

• 'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Parents
  • Fear
  • Food

• I have an appetite to always learn.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Always
  • Learn
  • Appetite

• Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Great
  • Want
  • Small

• I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Know
  • Relationship

• Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Way
  • Win
  • Safe

• I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Great
  • Feel
  • Perfume

• When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Gold
  • Find
  • Name

• I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all – or am I?

  

  Otto Dix
  • Experience
  • Dead
  • Bullet

• With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • People
  • Children
  • Night

• I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Attention
  • Humans
  • Pay

• There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No ones illegal. They should just be able to come.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Mind
  • Water
  • Value

• If you set the rate at 68 cents, it will damage the quality of education in Stafford. However, if it drops any lower, it will be devastating.

  

  Ed Sullivan
  • Education
  • Quality
  • Damage

• To achieve a more balanced international system over time, countries with excessive and unsustainable trade surpluses will need to allow their exchange rates to better reflect market fundamentals.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Time
  • Trade
  • Market

• I don't drink alcohol too late in the evening; I read a good book.

  

  Michael Rosbash
  • Read
  • Alcohol
  • Late

• A smile flickered across Coral’s face. “Have you ever noticed that once you have had a taste of certain sweets—raspberry trifle is my own despair—it is quite impossible not to think, not to want, not to crave until you have taken another bite?” “Lord Swartingham is not a raspberry trifle.” “No, more of a dark chocolate mousse, I should think,” Coral murmured. “And,” Anna continued as if she hadn’t heard the interruption, “I don’t need another bite, uh,night of him.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Thinking
  • Night
  • Taken

• I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Great
  • Love
  • Funny

• Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Art
  • Never
  • Sake

• Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

  

  Simon Newcomb
  • Impossible
  • Machines
  • Flight