Alfred Harker Quotes

The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.

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• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Royalty
  • Were
  • Descended

• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Business
  • Failure

• There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Good
  • Why
  • Pretty

• Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Good
  • God
  • Truth

• I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Want
  • Doing
  • See

• As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Long

• While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Up
  • Done
  • Kids

• I have this concept that I call 'Combo Meals.' The idea is that I start with the kids' meal and then add a few more ingredients, and it becomes the adult meal. This way I'm not making two entirely separate dishes. I'm just simply adding on to what I'm already making.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Start

• What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Up
  • Different
  • Literature

• Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Family
  • Death

• I hate birthdays.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Hate
  • Birthdays

• Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • People
  • Good
  • Moment

• I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Perfect
  • Being
  • Very

• I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • People
  • Me
  • Roles

• It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Bounce

• The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Done
  • Reward
  • Well Done

• You are so intent that you believe only what you believe that you believe, that you remain utterly blind to what you really believe without believing that you believe it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Believe

• Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Good
  • Democracy

• A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • People
  • Creativity
  • Interested

• Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.

  

  Plotinus
  • Nature
  • Wisdom
  • Image

• At the happy ending of the Tempest, Prospero brings the kind back togeter with his son, and finds Miranda's true love and punishes the bad duke and frees Ariel and becomes a duke himself again. Everyone - except Caliban - is happy, and everyone is forgiven, and everyone is fine, and they all sail away on calm seas. Happy endings. That's how it is in Shakespeare. But Shakespeare was wrong. Sometimes there isn't a Prospero to make everything fine again. And sometimes the quality of mercy is strained.

  

  Gary D.
  • Happy
  • Quality
  • Sometimes

• But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.

  

  Alan Vega
  • Time
  • Long
  • Fall

• The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.

  

  Alfred Harker
  • Nature
  • Laws
  • Laboratory