Michael Faraday Quotes

I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.

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• I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Extraordinary

• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Adversity

• Marriage has made me safer.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Made

• Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Old
  • Fools
  • Behind

• Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Strong
  • Band
  • Voice

• Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Writing
  • Planning

• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • White
  • Though
  • Hispanic

• I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Family
  • Thankful
  • Doctors

• But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Deserve
  • Affirmation

• Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Think
  • Hair
  • Yellow

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Done
  • Character
  • Influence

• I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • College
  • Myself
  • Hair

• By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

  

  O. Henry
  • King
  • Rights
  • New Deal

• You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Time
  • You
  • Right

• I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Idea
  • Write

• When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Man
  • Brother
  • Years

• I don't know how this industry works. There is no formula.

  

  Nushrat Bharucha
  • Industry
  • Works
  • Formula

• In 1975, I quit my tenure, and we moved from Ann Arbor to New Hampshire. It was daunting to pay for groceries and the mortgage by freelance writing - but it worked, and I loved doing it.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Writing

• With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Win
  • President
  • Member

• Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

  

  Berkeley Breathed
  • Family
  • Funny
  • Food

• I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Man
  • Confidence
  • Works