George Biddell Airy Quotes

I had made considerable advance ... in calculations on my favourite numerical lunar theory, when I discovered that, under the heavy pressure of unusual matters (two transits of Venus and some eclipses) I had committed a grievous error in the first stage of giving numerical value to my theory. My spirit in the work was broken, and I have never heartily proceeded with it since.

George Biddell Airy

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• I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
  • Great
  • Heart

• I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Family
  • Farmers
  • Budhana

• If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Afraid

• I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.

  

  Malachi Throne
  • Money
  • Wind
  • Same

• Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Important
  • You
  • Memory

• I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Work
  • Success

• Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Fun
  • Successful
  • Have Fun

• I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• By being friends with all, we are not alone.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Friends
  • Alone
  • Being

• Form follows beauty.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Beauty
  • Form
  • Follows

• I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Eyes

• Enhancing a woman's silhouette and enhancing a woman's beauty - both contribute to enhancing her confidence, so they're synonymous, really.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Woman
  • Confidence
  • Beauty

• I have often been called a political opportunist simply because I've had friendships with those from varied spheres of the political scenario. It's risky to even have hi and hello relations now with persons from a particular domain. But I think it has got more to do with that spectrum than it has to do with the people in it.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • People
  • Political
  • Friendships

• It is absurd that so much money has been wasted on manipulating public opinion, on simulating emotion. This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can’t manufacture the happiness of our people.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I can’t accept 'our nervous age,' since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Up
  • Age
  • Mistake

• How many artists subscribe to the notion that creative success depends on input from the fickle muse or her modern avatar, mental illness? Probably very few.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Success

• I think that we can often be eating and not even really acknowledging that we are putting something about our mouths. I think there is lot to be said about eating dinner and not having the distraction of the TV.

  

  Patsy Kensit

• I don't think when I make love.

  

  Brigitte Bardot

• When a subject pops into a director's head, you either fit in there somewhere, or you don't. An actor is only who he is. Especially as you get older, there's not as much of a range of potentially feasible parts.

  

  Charlotte Rampling

• A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • May
  • Bad

• If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Health
  • Prosperity
  • Africa

• Every experience permanently alters the way you perceive beauty

  

  Katharine Hamnett
  • Experience
  • Beauty
  • Perceive

• It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Dance

• I had made considerable advance ... in calculations on my favourite numerical lunar theory, when I discovered that, under the heavy pressure of unusual matters (two transits of Venus and some eclipses) I had committed a grievous error in the first stage of giving numerical value to my theory. My spirit in the work was broken, and I have never heartily proceeded with it since.

  

  George Biddell Airy
  • Science
  • Spirit
  • Matter