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

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Student

• 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

• 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

• 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

• And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done.

  

  Eli Wallach
  • Done
  • Batman

• O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

  

  Christopher Marlowe
  • Art
  • Air

• Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Joy
  • Travel

• I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • Life
  • Music
  • Long

• You gotta understand - the state of Mississippi was in rebellion. It had rebelled against the United States. Now that has been a very difficult story for America to tell, but that's what actually happened.

  

  James Meredith
  • America

• The opposite of freedom is not determinism, but hardness of heart. Freedom presupposes openness of heart, of mind, of eye and ear.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Freedom

• I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worked with.

  

  David Carradine
  • Real

• Simplicity is the glory of expression.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Expression
  • Simplicity

• Any consideration of the story we call 'Cinderella' for simplicity's sake must acknowledge that 'Cinderella' has had a dizzying array of personae over hundreds of years, in several cultures. There is no one authoritative tale of 'Cinderella,' only a hall of mirrors with a different face in each reflection.

  

  Marie Rutkoski
  • Different
  • Reflection
  • Simplicity

• Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.

  

  Kurt Schwitters
  • Life
  • Art
  • Free

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

  

  Augustin-Jean Fresnel
  • Chaos
  • Simplicity
  • Discover