Augustin-Jean Fresnel Quotes

Simplicity lies concealed in this chaos, and it is only for us to discover it.

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

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• At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Me
  • Church
  • Decide

• I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Great
  • Different
  • Art

• I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Student

• With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Think
  • Start
  • Pressure

• I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Hands
  • Two
  • Give

• Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Science
  • Planning
  • Economic

• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Violence
  • More

• It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Always
  • Story
  • Last

• I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Respect
  • Look
  • Just

• A lot of comedians are selfish.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Selfish
  • Lot
  • Comedians

• When you hear a story, do you believe only the nice parts? Truth isn’t like a baked fish, where you can eat the flesh and leave the bones and skin. You have to eat it all.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Nice

• He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase,Or power of the wave, or deepened speech, Or a leaner being, moving in on him, Of greater aptitude and apprehension,As if the waves at last were never broken, As if the language suddenly, with ease, Said things it had laboriously spoken.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Power
  • Moving
  • Broken

• I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma - let him get off as he can.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Up

• I didn't get to experience proper autumn until I was eighteen and heading off to college on the East Coast!

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • Experience
  • College
  • Autumn

• My entire life can fit into a knapsack.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Life

• I moved to Spain, and at all the tournaments I'd play, I would be really good in my age. That made me realize that I could be a pro.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Good
  • Age

• Well, we're out of time here. Regardless of that, and what might be perceived as our disagreement on the substance of this, my great thanks for coming out and speaking to this under these circumstances.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Time
  • Great
  • Circumstances

• Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Time
  • Desire
  • Boundaries

• I don't know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time. It's like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic?

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Film
  • Flower
  • Aging

• The good man makes others good.

  

  Menander
  • Men
  • Goodness

• The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.

  

  John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead
  • Good
  • Great

• Simplicity lies concealed in this chaos, and it is only for us to discover it.

  

  Augustin-Jean Fresnel
  • Chaos
  • Simplicity
  • Discover