Nikola Tesla Quotes
The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.
Nikola Tesla
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We Franz Marc & Kandinsky thought up the name Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) while sitting at a cafe table.. .Both of us were fond of blue things, Franz Marc of blue horses, and I of blue riders. So the title suggested itself.
Wassily Kandinsky
Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president.
Ann Coulter
I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
Benmont Tench
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.
David Herbert Donald
Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.
Jacques Monod
Well, I do write on political and social issues and the idea that one shouldn't - or the idea that we should censor ourselves - doesn't really work for me because it would be doing the government's job for them. And I'm not interested in doing that. I think what we need very much in Pakistan is to be able to discuss the corruption and the violence that really colours most of our life here.
Fatima Bhutto
I never liked pep rallies. I found school spirit hard to deal with. I am much more oriented towards the individual.
Christopher Markus
After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.
Edwidge Danticat
The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.
Catherynne M. Valente
Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.
James Mercer
Broken Bells
The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.
Nikola Tesla
