Leon Foucault Quotes
Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain to communicate by constructing it on a small [scale], no matter how carefully. Already the regularity of its motion promises the most conclusive results. One collects numbers that, compared with the predictions of theory, permit one to appreciate how far the true pendulum approximates or differs from the abstract system called 'the simple pendulum'.
Leon Foucault
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch
I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
Sally Mann
I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
Radha Mitchell
For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
Patrick Wilson
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.
Ilyasah Shabazz
OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
Larry David
I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
Fay Wray
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
Salman Rushdie
Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.
Ozwald Boateng
I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
A. R. Rahman
My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.
Karisma Kapoor
The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad.
Alan Arkin
Being humble got me very far when I went to L.A., because it was in stark contrast to this town of people who were so cutthroat.
Molly Bloom
Learn your craft well. Take care of your own business. Success (popularity) is fleeting for most, but longevity lies in a quality craft with integrity. Oh, and don't take yourself too seriously.
Oleta Adams
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Jack Vance
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
Seneca the Younger
Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain to communicate by constructing it on a small [scale], no matter how carefully. Already the regularity of its motion promises the most conclusive results. One collects numbers that, compared with the predictions of theory, permit one to appreciate how far the true pendulum approximates or differs from the abstract system called 'the simple pendulum'.
Leon Foucault