Simon Newcomb Quotes

Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

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• I toured a lot in the U.K. and Europe solo for a lack of funds, really. I left people I'd been playing with for years at home, just because I couldn't afford it.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • People
  • Home
  • Just Because

• If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Team
  • Stand
  • Naked

• I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Job
  • Friends

• Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Important
  • Society
  • Far

• Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Job
  • Day
  • Player

• The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Different
  • Job
  • Story

• I have watched SS2 evolve over the years into an incredible vehicle that is going to open up space to more people than ever before.

  

  David Mackay
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• I couldn't do anything I didn't enjoy.

  

  Joe Namath

• When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep.

  

  Alex Gibney
  • Dad
  • Fall
  • Mom

• At no time have I ever said that people should be stripped of their right to the insanity of belief in God. If they want to practice this kind of irrationality, that's their business. It won't get them anywhere; it certainly won't make them happier or more compassionate human beings; but if they want to chew that particular cud. they're welcome to it.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• Homes should be an anchor, a safe harbor, a place of refuge, a place where families dwell together, a place where children are loved. In the home, parents should teach their children the great lessons of life. Home should be the center of one’s earthly experience, where love and mutual respect are appropriately blended.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Life
  • Great
  • Children

• Music is the exact opposite of anxiety. It's there to relieve anxiety, to calm you down. And to just get the noise out of your biological system. So that, it's not going to make your immune system stronger than normal. What it does, in my view, is allow your immune system to work with the full force of normality.

  

  Neal Barnard
  • Work
  • Music
  • Anxiety

• There's a couple guys that I'd like to wrestle, but truthfully, I want to wrestle as many guys as I can.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Want
  • Like
  • Couple

• I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

  

  Isaac Mizrahi
  • Life
  • Exuberance
  • Tasteful

• Whenever I sing 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' the way people sing along with me still excites me. It's one of the songs that audiences know all the lyrics to, and they sing along with me, and it makes me so happy. People also know my songs 'Holding out for a Hero' and 'Lost in France,' and this gives me so much joy on stage.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • People
  • Heart
  • Happy

• We don't know something called elections in Libya. We are a muslim country. We don't know something called colonialism and political parties.

  

  Al-Saadi Gaddafi
  • Parties
  • Elections
  • Colonialism

• That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they are now; and no legislation will make a man have more presence of mind, or, I believe, make him more cautious; and besides that, the next time such an accident occurs, the circumstances will be so different, that the instructions given to the men, in consequence of the former accident, will not apply.

  

  Isambard K. Brunel
  • Men
  • Accident
  • Instructions

• Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

  

  Simon Newcomb
  • Parties
  • Eclipse
  • Observe