William Herschel Quotes

I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.

William Herschel

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• I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

  

  Flume
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• I've found that musical theater is my passion.

  

  Samantha Barks
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  • Found
  • Theater

• No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Man
  • Humour
  • Agnostic

• The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Band
  • Guys
  • Instruments

• Humour allows people to exhale a little.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Little
  • Humour

• It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Something
  • Mistakes
  • Found

• I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Found
  • Earn

• Most of my instruments are handmade.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Most
  • Instruments
  • Handmade

• I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.

  

  J. Cole
  • School
  • Play
  • Instruments

• The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Time
  • Sense
  • Experienced

• I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Time
  • Found
  • Probability

• When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Person
  • Guilty
  • Found

• Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Forever
  • Nothing
  • Lasts

• I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Career

• Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Time
  • Found
  • Him

• Being lost is worth the being found.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Lost
  • Found
  • Irony

• I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Up
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Why
  • Search
  • Force

• When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Women
  • Way

• At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

  

  Alexander the Great
  • Found
  • Glory
  • Tomb

• This religion teaches that 6,000 years ago God made the first man out of dust - not even mud - and the first woman out of a bone; that God cursed the whole human race because a snake made the woman eat an apple; that God had a son by another man's wife, and that he had this son murdered in order to keep himself from sending all the human race to hell.

  

  Charles Chilton Moore
  • Men
  • Wife
  • Son

• I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Marriage

• Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, is in the present moment

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Future
  • Dream
  • Past

• I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.

  

  William Herschel
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  • Instruments