Richard Smalley Quotes

Diamond, for all its great beauty, is not nearly as interesting as the hexagonal plane of graphite. It is not nearly as interesting because we live in a three-dimensional space, and in diamond, each atom is surrounded in all three directions in space by a full coordination.

Richard Smalley

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• My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Good
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Father
  • Trust
  • Husband

• I love New York. Love it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • Care
  • Out

• I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Science
  • Always
  • Spiritual

• Word of mouth is everything.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Everything
  • Word
  • Mouth

• I'm good at professional wrestling, and I always will be good, but what's always been different about me is that I can't completely focus on professional wrestling.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • Good
  • Different
  • Focus

• I pretty much came out of the womb singing. I think I sang all the time.

  

  Jodi Benson
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Singing

• There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live. Someone has to take the initiative to love and trust her fellow living creature and set us all free.

  

  Brendan Myers
  • Live
  • Free
  • Fear

• I'm pretty much a goodie two-shoes.

  

  Emma Kenney
  • Pretty
  • Shoes

• I just know that all my fans who are with me and going along for the ride, that's what means the most to me.

  

  McKayla Maroney

• I was a dogged reporter.

  

  Joanna Coles

• Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.

  

  John Barton
  • Curiosity
  • Empathy

• You learn how to take care of people from the women in your life.

  

  Mehmet Oz
  • People
  • Life
  • Women

• 'But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like?' 'Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of fold as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.'

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Lion

• Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call it a movie) that I have ever seen. He thought it was better than Finding Nemo and we had a fruitless argument which I'm sure made him acutely aware of the disadvantages of having a film critic for a dad.

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Movie
  • Dad
  • Son

• The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Black
  • Light
  • Eyes

• I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a long bath and..." I looked shyly down. Which is pretty impressive to have done artistic laugh, quirky language and shyness all in the space of ten seconds.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Good
  • Long
  • Done

• I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Proud
  • Right
  • Part

• Through art, you create your own world.

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • World
  • Art

• The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Literature
  • Bible

• Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sing your own song. I like to get up there and sing stuff that I would never sing on stage anywhere else. Like Neil Diamond.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Up
  • Song
  • Artist

• Diamond, for all its great beauty, is not nearly as interesting as the hexagonal plane of graphite. It is not nearly as interesting because we live in a three-dimensional space, and in diamond, each atom is surrounded in all three directions in space by a full coordination.

  

  Richard Smalley
  • Diamond
  • Plane
  • Coordination