George Cowan Quotes
In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.George Cowan
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
Halsey -
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Xun Kuang -
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
Kaskade -
Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.
R. Kelly -
I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
Jack Dee
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I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.
Kaley Cuoco -
I used to play football with a load of lads, and I would be like a secret agent going out with a hat on so they wouldn't see my hair in a bun.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee -
I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
Daniel Baldwin -
I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
Samuel Johnson -
The position of woman has doubtless been elevated through the influence of Christianity, but... it is probably fair to say that most of the great Churches through their teaching and organization have exerted a conservative and retarding influence on the rise of woman to equality with man.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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You are so intent that you believe only what you believe that you believe, that you remain utterly blind to what you really believe without believing that you believe it.
Orson Scott Card -
Sometimes it felt to him as though he’s spent most of his life traveling, and never quite got to anywhere that mattered. Then again, that might be as good a description of what life was supposed to be as anyone ever thought of. The only real destination was death, and our lives consisted of finding the most circuitous and pleasant path to get there.
Orson Scott Card -
All the sciences in the world never smoothed down a dying pillow. No earthly philosophy ever supplied hope in death.
J. C. Ryle -
Why don't you sit right down and stay awhile? We like the same things and I like your style Its not a secret; why do you keep it? I'm just sitting on the shelf
Zooey Deschanel -
Unfortunately for the modern dramatist, during the past century and a half the public realm has been less and less of a realm where human deeds are done, and more and more of a realm of mere human behavior. The contemporary dramatist has lost his natural subject.
W. H. Auden -
Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.
David Suzuki
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All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.
Jane Hamilton -
That can definitely mess with your music - if you overthink. 'What's radio going to think?' or 'What are these people going to think?'
Ashley Monroe -
Privacy is a right, but as in any democratic society, it is not an absolute right.
David Blunkett -
The image of a bedsheet ghost standing all alone in an empty house was something I was obsessed with. I really wanted to make a film about that image, and I was waiting for the right story to come along. When it did, I did my best to honor that image.
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven -
In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.
George Cowan