Albert A. Michelson Quotes
It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether, it must be small; quite small enough entirely to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration.Albert A. Michelson
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
Olivia Thirlby -
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
V. S. Naipaul -
Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
Mal Peet -
When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
Caitlin Moran -
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
Tao Lin
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
Karen Bender -
I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
Kate Voegele -
I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
Harrison Ford -
I come from a pretty strange family.
Illeana Douglas -
Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
Cal Thomas -
My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.
Orville Wright -
Writing obscures languageĀ ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
We've all heard it: vegans are cool and plant-based dining is hot. What other diet can promise to keep you trim without working at it, clear clogged arteries, save the lives of animals, and do more to stem climate change than driving a Prius-or not driving at all?
Victoria Moran -
To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.
L. Frank Baum -
Any can do it - BE RADIANT! Make the decision. I want to be an agent of change to a loving world - so I will be radiant.
Patch Adams -
As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.
Edward Bond
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...ingratitude is more common than you might think.
Cormac McCarthy -
I watch a lot of sports. One of the reasons I watch is to see how these guys handle pressure, how they respond to situations.
Jason Dufner -
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
Ira Glass -
Since the appearance of Impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red.. .But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
Claude Monet -
Through him I am aware of the nature and condition of your world, and offer from my viewpoint comments meant to help you. Through Ruburt, then, I am permitted to view the earth again in your terms. I exist apart from him, as he exists apart from me, yet we together a part of the same entity - and that simply carries the idea of the psyche further.
Jane Roberts -
It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether, it must be small; quite small enough entirely to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration.
Albert A. Michelson