William Crookes Quotes

The phenomena in these exhausted tubes reveal to physical science a new world-a world where matter may exist in a fourth state, where the corpuscular theory of light may be true, and where light does not always move in straight lines, but where we can never enter, and with which we must be content to observe and experiment from the outside.

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• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Born
  • Name
  • Fathers

• Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Children
  • Mom
  • Name

• If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Empty
  • Farmer
  • Barn

• Social Security is fundamentally strong.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Strong
  • Security
  • Social

• To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Live
  • Say
  • Lie

• For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Power
  • Learning
  • Myself

• I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• Unfettered, creative, and enthusiastic entrepreneurship is one of the hallmarks of American life, and it has allowed us to attract the best and brightest to this country.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Country
  • American

• I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Thought
  • Rather

• I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Change

• Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • She
  • Best
  • Beauty

• I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Trade
  • Fair
  • Balanced

• I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Party
  • Win
  • Election

• As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Life
  • Up
  • Wind

• Nothing has changed since I began.My eye has permitted no change.I am going to keep things like this.

  

  Ted Hughes

• The master made it his task to systematically destroy every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying: 'When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Taken
  • Moon

• I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Society
  • Lies

• Never ask a woman when she's due unless you know for a fact she's expecting.

  

  Eric Dane
  • She

• Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heartFrom its present pathway part not!Being everything which now thou art,Be nothing which thou art not.So with the world thy gentle ways,Thy grace, thy more than beauty,Shall be an endless theme of praise,And love - a simple duty.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Art
  • Simple

• Foundations are the new Birkin bags. Everyone who is anyone has one. Giving is now chic.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Giving

• A poor, weak, palsy-stricken, churchyard thing.

  

  John Keats

• The phenomena in these exhausted tubes reveal to physical science a new world-a world where matter may exist in a fourth state, where the corpuscular theory of light may be true, and where light does not always move in straight lines, but where we can never enter, and with which we must be content to observe and experiment from the outside.

  

  William Crookes
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