Vladimir Prelog Quotes
An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.Vladimir Prelog
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
Abbey Clancy -
For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
Barbara Demick -
The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.
Val Kilmer -
I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
Uma Thurman -
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
B. C. Forbes -
My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.
Laura Benanti
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My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.
Abhishek Bachchan -
Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.
Aaron Rodgers -
The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward.
Dan Quinn -
Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
Ramakrishna -
Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (therefore) good, which is the precise mirror image of the official idea of the terrorists.
Wendell Berry -
The first idea was not our own. Adam In Eden was the father of Descartes And eve made air the mirror of herself,Of her sons and of her daughters.
Wallace Stevens
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Art is man’s metaphysical mirror; what a rational man seeks to see in that mirror is a salute; what an irrational man seeks to see is a justification – even if only a justification of his depravity, as a last convulsion of his betrayed self-esteem.
Ayn Rand -
For the eyes are the mirror of the soul and ought to remain unscathed if at all possible. Otherwise people will suppose the soul is done for.
Elfriede Jelinek -
DK: How often does the seriousness end and the irony begin in your work? M: Many times. I have a grand and endless capacity to find myself slightly ridiculous. I'm not pretending to be some wallowing prophet, for heaven's sake. I think we all have to sit down and look in the mirror and think, What is that absurd monstrosity?
Morrissey The Smiths -
I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is to ride into the sunset, stereo blasting, and all of what's got you worried will disappear in the rear view mirror!
Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction -
He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.
Eric Cantona -
I don't stress about things I can't change, so if I have a day when I don't look great, I don't look in the mirror! I try to fit in one session of Bikram yoga and one run a week and, if I can, one swim, but that's pushing it.
Donna Air
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I don't like losing. I don't like to be in a losing position, and I show this a lot. I demonstrate on the pitch.
Diego Costa -
I am a good enough Canadian to believe, if my experience justifies me in believing, that Canadians are best served by Canadians.
Arthur Currie -
Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldn't even consider doing.
Jamais Cascio -
I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.
Janet Jackson -
There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.
Kami Garcia -
An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.
Vladimir Prelog